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#1

“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”
― Mark Twain

tags: cats

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#2

“For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: innocence, justice, mercy, wickedness

472 likes

#3

“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

4996 likes

#4

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

1912 likes

#5

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: philosophy

377 likes

#6

“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 furious party cries will be raised against anybody who says that cows have horns, in which people will persecute the heresy of calling a triangle a three-sided figure, and hang a man for maddening mob with the news that grass is green.”
― G.K. Chesterton

48 likes

#7

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: art, morality

748 likes

#8

“Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: freedom-of-religion, religion

683 likes

#9

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

664 likes

#10

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: creation-science, evolution, evolutionary-process, science

637 likes

#11

“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

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#12

“Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

436 likes

#13

“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton

375 likes

#14

“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

362 likes

#15

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: country

311 likes

#16

“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.”
― G. K. Chesterton

281 likes

#17

“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: duty, identity, responsibility, uniqueness

236 likes

#18

“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#19

“The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: anarchy, revolution

166 likes

#20

“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: appreciation, attitude, wonder

154 likes

#21

“Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Christendom in Dublin

146 likes

#22

“If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#23

“That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education

115 likes

#24

“In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Fancies Versus Fads

tags: dogma

104 likes

#25

“When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#26

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
― G. K. Chesterton

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#27

“Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

tags: big-government, government, politics

69 likes

#28

“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: atheism, god, religion

64 likes

#29

“Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: evil

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#30

“The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Well and the Shallows

tags: politics

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