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.
G. K. CHESTERTONHell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
More G. K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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