A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. CHESTERTONImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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