To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTONDemocracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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