When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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 extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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