Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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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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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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