Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Evidence

• Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Practice, Ideas, People

• The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Humanity, Truth Is

• The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Miracle, Doctrine, Accepting

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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