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- No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
- Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- 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.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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