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.
I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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.
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.
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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.
The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
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.
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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