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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
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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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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
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Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
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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.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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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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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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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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