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