Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

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Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

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The classes that wash most are those that work least.

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America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

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Only poor men get hanged.

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There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

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There is, therefore, about all complete conviction a kind of huge helplessness.

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A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

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The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

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Half a truth is better than no politics.

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Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

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A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

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Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

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