QUOTES by Gilbert K Chesterton
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“There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.”
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
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“War is not ‘the best way of settling differences;’ it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.”
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“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”
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“It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.”
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“It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.”
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“There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.”
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“I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.”
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“It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.”
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“When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.”
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“For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.”
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“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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“He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.”
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“If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.”
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“Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.”
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“When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.”
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“The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.”
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“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.”
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“America is the only country ever founded on a creed.” – “What is America?”
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“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”
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“Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.”
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“The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.”
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“Over-civilization and barbarism are within an inch of each other. And a mark of both is the power of medicine-men.”
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“I think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.”
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“It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.”
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“With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.”
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“I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.”
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“Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.”
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“A good man’s work is effected by doing what he does, a woman’s by being what she is.”
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“Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.”
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“A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.”
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“Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.”
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“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
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“The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.”
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“It has been often said, very truely, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.”
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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”
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“There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.”
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