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The first is the quack who cures you; the second is the highly qualified person who doesn’t.” –, “There are two kinds of revolutionists, as of most things – a good kind and a bad. War and Politics It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.” – “True History of a Eugenist,”, “A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.” – “A Grammar of Shelley,”, “A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.” – “The Moral Philosophy of Meredith,”, “Moderns have not the moral courage, as a rule, to avow the sincere spiritual bias behind their fads; they become insincere even about their sincerity. “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.” – Chapter 5, “The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.” – “Introduction to the Book of Job,”, “It has been often said, very truely, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.” – “The Dickens Period,”, “Theology is only thought applied to religion.” – “The Groups of the City,”, “The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. Look at the faces in the street.” –, “When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.” –, “I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.” –, “Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.” – “On the Negative Spirit,”, “Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.” – “The Eternal Revolution,”, “My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. His office had no immediate comment on the allegations of coercion. We speak of ‘touching’ a man’s heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.” – “Charles II,”, “Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. One of them is to see in their tragedy only a stark simplicity, like the outline of a rock; the other is to see in it an unfathomable though a savage complexity, like the labyrinthine complexity of a living forest.” –, “There are two ways of renouncing the devil,” said Father Brown; “and the difference is perhaps the deepest chasm in modern religion. . Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.” – “A Case of Comrades,”, “Only friendliness produces friendship. It is the democracy of the dead. Nay, a difference of creed unites men – so long as it is a clear difference. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.” – “The Great Dickens Characters,”, “The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.” –, “Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. You get the small laws.” –, “Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.” – “The New Name,”. All rights reserved. He’s asking that the case against Thao be dismissed. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.” – “The Way of the Desert,”, “The effort of the Crusades was sufficient to stop the advance of Islam, but not sufficient to exhaust it. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.” –, “The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.” –, “Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as Self-Examination. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.” –, “All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. It is supposed that, if you break down all doors and walls so that there is no domesticity, there will then be nothing but friendship. Surely somebody must have noticed by this time that the men living in a hotel quarrel at least as often as the men living in a street.” –, “These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. Thus, in sex no animal is either chivalrous or obscene. Morality and Truth Instead of trying to break up new fields with its plough, it simply tries to break up the plough.” –, “No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.” – “The Philosopher,”, “The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.” – “Ethandune,”, “It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.” –, “I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.” –, “With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.” – “A Meditation in a New York Hotel,”, “It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.” –, “I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.” –, “There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. Love, Marriage, and the Sexes Paule said that in one of the conversations, Mitchell called Baker and told him he was going to submit an opinion piece critical of Baker’s findings to the Washington Post. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. He does not wear a mask of piety, but rather a mask of impiety – or, at any rate, of indifference.” –, “A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.” – “The Ethics of Elfland,”, “The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.” –, “Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.” –, “A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. vii. Past Words on Today’s Dilemmas When Baker released final autopsy findings June 1, they included neck compression, Paule wrote, and Mitchell never submitted his piece to the newspaper. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.” – “H.G. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The earlier type of bigot pretended to be more religious than he really was. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people’s property.” –, “The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity,”, “It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes.”, “There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.” – “Introduction,”, “There are two ways of dealing with the dignity, the pain, the prejudice or the rooted humour of the poor; especially of the rural poor. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. Chauvin, who was seen in widely viewed bystander video pressing his knee into Floyd’s neck as the Black man said he couldn’t breathe, was convicted in April of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter. © 2019 Sentinel Colorado. “I say God is One,” and “I say God is One but also Three,” that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.” – “The New Hypocrite,”, “A queer and almost mad notion seems to have got into the modern head that, if you mix up everybody and everything more or less anyhow, the mixture may be called unity, and the unity may be called peace. His office had no immediate comment on the allegations of coercion. The consequence is that the modern State has educated its citizens in a series of ephemeral fads.” – Nash’s, “A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour’s landmark.” –, “I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. Timeless Truths We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.” – Illustrated London News, March 24, 1923; September 11 – “The architecture of New York chiefly consists of buildings being destroyed.” – G.K.’s Weekly, Jan. 16, 1926 Liberty They’ve noted that department policy requires officers to intervene when excessive force is used, and say Gray hasn’t shown how the testimony of experts could be called into question by a lack of interventions. Copyright © 2021 | The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.” – “Sir Walter Scott,”, “The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.” – Introduction to, “To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.” – “The War of the Usurpers,”, “All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.” – “On Gargoyles,”, “The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.” –, “We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” –, “When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven’t got any.” –, “The free man owns himself. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.” – Broadcast talk, June 11, 1935, “Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.” – “The Love of Lead,”, “The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. . Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing better; enjoy bigamy and burglary and any crime in the calendar, in preference to the other alternative; but never learn to enjoy yourself.” – “If I Only Had One Sermon to Preach,”, “Do not look at the faces in the illustrated papers. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. Economic Theory and Distributism Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled. One is to have a horror of him because he is so far off; and the other to have it because he is so near. But after talking twice to Dr. Roger Mitchell – a former medical examiner in Washington, D.C. – he amended his findings to include neck compression as a factor, according to Paule. “The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. The Associated Press published a similar report the next day, citing two law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the talks. Courage He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.” – “The Dramatist,”, “Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.” – “The Streets of the City,”, “The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more do we let ourselves go, in dark and gorgeous imaginative frescoes or pageants about the mystery and majesty of the Three Magian Kings.” – “Very Christian Democracy,”, “The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.” – “On Christmas,”, “Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.” –, “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.” –, “There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth.” –, “The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.” –, “Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.” –, “Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.” –, “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 wrong.” – “The Obvious Blunders,”, “There’d be a lot less scandal if people didn’t idealize sin and pose as sinners.” –, “All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.” –, “Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.” –, “I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” –, “To the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sun is really a sun; to the humble man, and to the humble man alone, the sea is really a sea.” – “H.G. 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