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Own Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as…
- We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners…
- A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man…
- I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad…
- It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant…
- Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses…
- In a world flagrant with the failures of civilization, what is there particularly immortal about our own?
- At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to…
- The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries,…
- I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a…
- There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when…
- The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
- Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously…
- Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each…
- No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or…
- For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made…
- These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
- I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
- The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the…
- 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…
- Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it.…
- How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own…
- The whole point of the Eugenic pseudo-scientific theories is that they are to be applied wholesale, by some more sweeping and generalizing money power than…
- There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
- We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent.…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov