I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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 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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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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