To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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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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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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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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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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