G. K. Chesterton
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Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.
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Unfortunately science is only splendid when it is science. When science becomes religion it becomes superstition.
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When an Anarchist is poor he breaks laws; when he is rich he makes them. In neither case does he ever dream of obeying them.
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Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemously opposite meaning. –Peter Kreeft.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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Even anarchy on the right side is better than order on the wrong side.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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It has been the great tragedy of our time that people were taught to read and not taught to reason.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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Pornography is not a thing to be argued about with one's intellect, but to be stamped on with one's heel.
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Opponents of Christianity will believe anything except Christianity.
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The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.
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I am not afraid of opposition. My God is a God of battles.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green. #Chesterton
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The word "anti- Semitism" itself implies that all frictions between Jews and gentiles must be blamed on the gentiles. –Joseph Sobran.
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The seven social evils are:. Politics without principle. Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Economics without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. —Canon F. L. Donaldson, Westminister Abbey 1925.
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Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemously opposite meaning. —Peter Kreeft.
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It is not that Jews are traitors, but rather that traitors are Jews.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.
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Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. –C. S. Lewis.
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I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity. —C. S. Lewis.
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When an Anarchist is poor he breaks laws; when he is rich he makes them. In neither case does he ever dream of obeying them.
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Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemously opposite meaning. —Peter Kreeft.
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Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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It is not necessary to have every man a Jew to make a thing a Jewish movement.
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@jk_rowling “We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.”. —G. K. Chesterton.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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The Family is not only an institution, but a foundation, the foundation of nearly all institutions.
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I am not afraid of opposition. My God is a God of battles.
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Unfortunately science is only splendid when it is science. When science becomes religion it becomes superstition.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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Unfortunately science is only splendid when it is science. When science becomes religion it becomes superstition.
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Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.
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To say that there is no Jewish problem is practically to say that there is no Jewish people.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning. —Peter Kreeft.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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The man who sees nothing wrong in himself is the one man who is really wrong.
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Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemously opposite meaning. —Peter Kreeft.
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Perhaps the real meaning of St. George and the Dragon is that an evil has to be about as big and ugly as a dragon before an Englishman even knows it is there.
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Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.
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Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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You do not know a tyranny until it is on top of you; until it has you in a trap. The tyrant is not present until he is omnipresent.
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What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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When an Anarchist is poor he breaks laws; when he is rich he makes them. In neither case does he ever dream of obeying them.
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It cannot be too often repeated that what destroyed the Family in the modern world was Capitalism.
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God is not a symbol of goodness. Goodness is a symbol of God.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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We shall soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening a mob with the news that grass is green.
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The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.
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Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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"The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan. ". –G.K. Chesterton
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Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemously opposite meaning. –Peter Kreeft.
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"When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.". —G. K. Chesterton
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Abolish religion if you like. Throw everything on secular government if you like. But do not be surprised if a machinery that was never meant to do anything but secure external decency and order fails to secure internal honesty and peace.
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“The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan.” . -G. K. Chesterton
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Pornography is not a thing to be argued about with one's intellect, but to be stamped on with one's heel.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights. —G. K. Chesterton
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Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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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Unfortunately science is only splendid when it is science. When science becomes religion it becomes superstition.
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"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.". –G. K. Chesterton
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Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God. That fact is written all across human history.
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I would make a law by which an editor, proved to have published false news without reasonable verification, should simply go to prison.
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The first effect of not believing in God, is that you lose your common sense.
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Christianity is always out of fashion because it is always sane; and all fashions are mild insanities.
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If you tell an Irishman that he is an Irishman and not an Englishman, he will say he has always insisted he is not an Englishman; possibly that he thanks God he is not an Englishman. But if you tell a Jew he is not an Englishman, he says you are an Anti-Semite.
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Opponents of Christianity will believe anything except Christianity.
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Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the Eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning. —Peter Kreeft.
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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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The worst moment for an atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank.
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I am not afraid of opposition. My God is a God of battles.
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When an Anarchist is poor he breaks laws; when he is rich he makes them. In neither case does he ever dream of obeying them.
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Feminism is a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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I am not afraid of opposition. My God is a God of battles.
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