Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

• Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Feminist, Female, Characteristics

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• CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

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  Communication, Civilisation, Judged

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• Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

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  Inspirational, Education, School

  "Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1986.

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• A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

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  Faith, Inspiration, Common Sense

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• It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

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  Knowledge, Complaining, Absurd

  "St. Thomas Aquinas". Book by G.K. Chesterton, 1933.

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• Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

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  Fall, Brain, Open Minded

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• The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.

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  Believe, Men, Problem

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• Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

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  Believe, People, Tolerance

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• Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.

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  Jesus, Fearless, Church

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• God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

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  Inspirational, Looks, Sun

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• You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

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  Problem, Solutions, Ifs

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• To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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  Love, Inspirational, Success

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• Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

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  Errors

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• The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

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  Business, Mistake, Political

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, 1924.

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• Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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  Philosophy, Telephones

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• Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

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  Issues, Principles, Moral

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• Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

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  Doe, Moral, Sanity

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• The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

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  Inspiring, Christian, Moving

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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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  Thinking, Church, Needs

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• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

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  Life, Hate, Passion

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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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  Believe, Russia, Government

  "Christendom in Dublin". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Ch. III: Very Christian Democracy., 1932.

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• There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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  Life, Happiness, Smart

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• If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments

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  Men, Religion, Thousand

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• It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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  Husband, Ideas, Feminism

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• A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

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  Faith, Moral, Sanity

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