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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOnly man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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