Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

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The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

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Men may keep a sort of level of good, but no man has ever been able to keep on one level of evil.

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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

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Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

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Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.

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I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

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Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

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Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

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Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

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A yawn is a silent shout.

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Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

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If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.

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There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.

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People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse.

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