To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Quote by G. K. Chesterton
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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G. K. Chesterton Quotes
- A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.
- 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.
- Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
- To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
- Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
- 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.
- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
- American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
- I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
- I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
- Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
- The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
- God can help man solve all man's problems except man.
- God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
- It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.