Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThe Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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There 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.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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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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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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