Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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