CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The past is not what it was.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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