Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONFaith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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 word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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