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G. K. C. on plain morals

There is one thing which, in the presence of average modern journalism, is perhaps worth saying in connection with such an idle matter as this. The morals of a matter like this are exactly like the...

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G. K. C. on bigotry

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

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Joseph Brodsky on evil

No matter how daring or cautious you may choose to be in the course of your life you are bound to come into direct physical contact with what’s known as Evil. . . . For the most interesting thing...

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G. K. C. on tolerance

But modern tolerance is deafer than intolerance. The old religious authorities, at least, defined a heresy before they condemned it, and read a book before they burned it. But we are always saying to a...

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G. K. C. on ‘Thou shalt not’

‘Thou shalt not’ is only one of the necessary corollaries of ‘I will’. ‘I will go to the Lord Mayor’s Show, and thou shalt not stop me.’ Anarchism adjures us to be bold creative artists, and care for...

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John C. Wright on moral valence

John C. Wright is interviewed in Raygun Revival. Here, as a taste of the gig, is Mr. Wright on moral valence in popular fiction: If you wish to argue that there is no such thing as clearly defined good...

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J. R. R. T. on the banality of evidsd

A small knowledge of human history depresses one with the sense of the everlasting mass and weight of human iniquity: old, old, dreary, endless repetitive unchanging incurable wickedness. All towns,...

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Solzhenitsyn on evil

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts...

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G. K. C. on ugliness

Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some so weak that they will worship a thing only because it is ugly. These must be chained to the...

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T. S. Eliot on the motivation of evil

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm — but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it...

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Sayers on Hell

If we refuse assent to reality: if we rebel against the nature of things and choose to think that what we at the moment want is the centre of the universe to which everything else ought to accommodate...

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C. S. L. on slavery

Fifty years and a couple of days after he departed from the Shadowlands. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men...

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The purpose of fiction

Fiction can educate intellectually, but that is not its main purpose, which is to educate and regulate the sentiments. If you can wiggle it in, an argument that shows that courage is good is good, but...

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Fashion and moral influence

It is said by some, that men will think and act for themselves; that none will disuse spirits or anything else, merely because his neighbors do; and that moral influence is not that powerful engine...

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‘Vengeance’ revisited

A follow-up to my recent squib, ‘A case of vengeance’: No doubt one reason why Flyspeck Flivverpuff was so happy to hear suicide recommended as a sure ticket to Hell was that, in fact, this was a lie....

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For Charlie, but mainly for Baga

Two sayings that, at this moment, are particularly worth bearing in mind:   It needs but one foe to breed a war, not two. And those who have not swords can still die upon them. —J. R. R. Tolkien, The...

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The artist as citizen

In an age like our own, when the artist is an altogether exceptional person, he must be allowed a certain amount of irresponsibility, just as a pregnant woman is. Still, no one would say that a...

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Neighbours and enemies

The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.  —G. K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity

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From the pen of Sarah Dimento

First, cover art for my next collection of essais, Style is the Rocket: Featuring the title piece and a Bunch of Other Cool Stuff.   Second, Aristotle’s Ethics brought within the reach of the Modern...

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Life, Carbon, and the Tao

My essai for the first anniversary of L. Jagi Lamplighter’s Superversive blog is now up in full: Part One: What’s so special about carbon? Part Two: What’s so special about the Tao? Reposted on...

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