Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. -- G.K. Chesterton
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When all are sexless there will be equality. There will be no women and no men. There will be but a fraternity, free and equal. The only consoling thought is that it will endure but for one generation. -- G.K. Chesterton
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. -- G.K. Chesterton (1874--1936)
The very word Socialist has come very near to meaning merely Sentimentalist. It means a man not bold and logical enough to call himself a Communist. -- G.K. Chesterton
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality. -- G.K. Chesterton
It is not easy to draw the line anywhere; that is why it is so necessary to draw the line somewhere. -- G.K. Chesterton
It is dangerous to be alive; one very often dies of it. -- G.K. Chesterton
We talk, by a sort of habit, about Modern Thought, forgetting the familiar fact that moderns do not think. They only feel, and that is why they are so much stronger in fiction than in facts; why their novels are so much better than their newspapers. -- G.K. Chesterton
The modern world will not distinguish between matters of opinion and matters of principle; and it ends by treating them all as matters of taste. -- G.K. Chesterton
The idea of liberty has ultimately a religious root; that is why men find it so easy to die for and so difficult to define. -- G.K. Chesterton
Most outcomes of modern education are uneducated men. Our education is uneducation; its whole tendency is to unteach people the traditions of their fathers. -- G.K. Chesterton
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honor should decline. -- G.K. Chesterton
You do not know a tyranny until it is on top of you; until it has you in a trap. The tyrant is not present until he is omnipresent. -- G.K. Chesterton
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" - and find that there is no death.— Eckhart Tolle
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it. ― John Lennon
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.-- Anotole France
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. -- G.K. Chesterton
The corruption of the priesthood occurred at the precise moment in which it changed from a minority organized to impart knowledge into a minority organized to withhold it. The great danger of decadence in journalism is almost exactly the same. -- G.K. Chesterton
A man who thinks hard about any subject for several years is in horrible danger of discovering the truth about it. -- G.K. Chesterton
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