Catholic Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.”

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to…

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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