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Become Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained…
- Contemporary society has become dry, not for lack of wonders but for lack of wonder.
- If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward…
- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
- Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
- 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…
- The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey…
- But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a…
More Become Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle