To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvery one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every one on the earth should believe that he has something to give to the world which cannot otherwise be given.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIvory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.
Gilbert K. ChestertonReligious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.
Gilbert K. Chesterton