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Might Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are…
- Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely…
- Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable…
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is…
- A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted…
- 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…
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and…
- It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may…
- Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his observation and merely…
- There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
- The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might…
- ...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say that…
- An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be…
- 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…
- 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…
- If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might…
- It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone…
- Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not…
- There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.…
- As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood.…
- An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe…
More Might Quotes
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. — Francis of Assisi
- People are smarter than you might think. — John Astin
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story… — Chinua Achebe
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine