Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

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  Atheist, Religion, Atheism

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.

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  Hurt, Men, People

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• Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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  Spiritual, War, Men

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• To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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  Orthodoxy, Morality, Action

  "A short history of England". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1917.

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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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  Gratitude, Live Life, Grateful

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

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  Problem, Solutions, Ifs

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• Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

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  Christmas, Gratitude, Taken

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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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• We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

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  Boat

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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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• Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

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  Men, Evil, Champion

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