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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONHope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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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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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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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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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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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