It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTONBeing a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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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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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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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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 essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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