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I will go forth as a real outlaw, he said, and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway and it will be counted a wilder crime.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot the average man is a serf.
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I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.
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What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
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Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.
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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
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