Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Errors

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

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  Obvious Things, Civilization, Decay

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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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• Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

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  Years, Doctrine, Sin

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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 Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

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  Atheism, Masterpiece, Extraordinary

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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 thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

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  Hate, Argument, Discussion

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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 always the secure who are humble.

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  Humble, Kids, Humility

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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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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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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  Courage, Veterans Day, Strong

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

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  Stupid, Believe, Men

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, June 3, 1922.

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