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

Topics: Ethics Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Rightm Quotes

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to...

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to...

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well...

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well...

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful...

All that we call spirit and art and ecstacy only means that for one awful...

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle...

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle...

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head...

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head...

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying...

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying...

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the...

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the...

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.

Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke

Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every...

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every...

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not...

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not...

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have...

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have...

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore,...

The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore,...

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their...

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their...

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of...

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of...