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#1

“Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

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#2

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

5120 likes

#3

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: fairy-tales, hope, paraphrased, possiblity

2962 likes

#4

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

1913 likes

#5

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

1845 likes

#6

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

1828 likes

#7

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: travel

1657 likes

#8

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: love-loss

1648 likes

#9

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion

1532 likes

#10

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: adventure, inconvenience, perspectives

1143 likes

#11

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: gullibility

1185 likes

#12

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: free-speech

944 likes

#13

“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
― G.K. Chesterton

861 likes

#14

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: art, morality

748 likes

#15

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: creation-science, evolution, evolutionary-process, science

637 likes

#16

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”
― G.K. Chesterton

483 likes

#17

“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.”
― G.K. Chesterton

488 likes

#18

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

415 likes

#19

“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
― G.K. Chesterton

366 likes

#20

“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: philosophy

378 likes

#21

“We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: country

311 likes

#22

“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Ballad of the White Horse

tags: humor, irish, song, war

327 likes

#23

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

4487 likes

#24

“The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.”
― Napoleon

259 likes

#25

“Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
― Napoleon

tags: humans, music, napoleon

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