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Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?
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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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion.
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I might inform those humanitarians who have a nightmare of new and needless babies (for some humanitarians have that sort of horror of humanity) that if the recent decline in the birth-rate were continued for a certain time, it might end in there being no babies at all which would console them very much.
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
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To downgrade the human mind is bad theology.
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The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
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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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Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.
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The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.
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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Man is at his tallest when he bows.
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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
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