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Precisely because our political speeches are meant to be reported, they are not worth reporting. Precisely because they are carefully designed to be read, nobody reads them.
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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Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
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Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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It is one thing to describe an interview with a gorgon or a griffin, a creature who does not exist. It is another thing to discover that the rhinoceros does exist and then take pleasure in the fact that he looks as if he didn't.
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If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.
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And it is always the humble man who talks too much the proud man watches himself too closely.
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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, I will not hit you if you do not hit me there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, We must not hit each other in the holy place.
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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
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I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.
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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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To be simple is the best thing in the world.
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