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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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