Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONParadox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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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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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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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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