Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
G. K. CHESTERTON
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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