“A key has no logic to its shape. Its logic is: it turns the lock.”
— G.K. Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Human dignity and rights
“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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G K Chesterton: Drinking
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
—G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Religious liberty
“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.
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G K Chesterton: Servile State
‘I do not regard the Servile State marching upon us as “the inevitable outcome of industrial laws.” I regard it as the inevitable outcome of talking tosh about something nice happening somehow some day, while our masters are busily building the walls of the Slave Compound round us.’
—G K Chesterton.
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G K Chesterton: Make a lot of it
“The way to lessen sorrow is to make a lot of it. The way to endure a painful crisis is to insist very much that it is a crisis; to permit people who must feel sad at least to feel important. ”
G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
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G K Chesterton: First truth
“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.”
G K Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World.
