Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
G. K. CHESTERTONNo man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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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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