Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Errors

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• The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

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  Family, Christian, Prayer

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• The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves.

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  Educational, People, Leaving

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• One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

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  Nature, Adversity, Mountain Peaks

  "The Hammer of God". Short story by G. K. Chesterton, December 1910.

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• The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

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  Grandmother, Men, Good Man

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• If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

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  God, Atheist, Christian Inspirational

  "Where All Roads Lead" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1922.

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• We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

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  Silence, Needs, Censorship

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• Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

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  Christian, Wisdom, Religious

  "Points of friction". Book by Agnes Repplier, "Consolations of the Conservative", 1920.

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• It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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  Political, Politician, Terrible

  "The Cleveland Press" Newspaper, March 1, 1921.

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• When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

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  Rights, Long, People

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

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  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

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  Hope, Children, Dragons

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• I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

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  Inspirational, Cities, Parks

  "Trust Or Consequences : Build Trust Today Or Lose Your Market Tomorrow". Book by Al Golin, 2004.

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• A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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  Life And Love, Great Person, Really Great

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• You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

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  Love, Fighting, Fighting On

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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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• It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.

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  Media, World, News

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• Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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  Art, Funny Friend, Drawing

  "The Golden Book" Magazine, Vol. 7, (p. 323), 1928.

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• On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

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  Night, Garden, Heaven

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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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• 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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• It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

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  Believe, Common Sense, Firsts

  "The Oracle of the Dog". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1923.

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• Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

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  Home, Mean, Not Worth It

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• When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven's name to what?

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  Names, Heaven, Belief

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