Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere 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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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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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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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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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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