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.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Russia, Government

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

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

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  Issues, Principles, Moral

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• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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  Love, Faith, Religious

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

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  Running, Differences, States

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

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  Errors

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
  Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity.
  He who has the faith has the fun.

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  Fun, Angel, Devil

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• O God of earth and altar,
  Bow down and hear our cry,
  Our earthly rulers falter,
  Our people drift and die;
  The walls of gold entomb us,
  The swords of scorn divide,
  Take not thy thunder from us,
  But take away our pride.

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  Wall, Pride, People

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

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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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• 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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• 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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• The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

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  Christian, Running, Order

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

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  Education, School, People

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• The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

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  Philosophy, Moon, Men

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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 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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