Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes - Page 41

• And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.

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  Vision, Monsters, Saws

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

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  Business, Socialism, Economic

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

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  Crazy, Economic, Indestructible

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• Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

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  Business, Military, Army

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• All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

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  Men, Rich, Pity

  Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays "The Utopia of Usurers" (1917)

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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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  Girl, Mother, Home

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

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• [Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

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  Answers, Demand, Want

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• Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

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  Doe, Littles, Pay

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't have the family farm without the family.

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  Economic, Family Farms, Farms

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• The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

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  Art, Decay, Literature

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• And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

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  Art, Fun, Broken

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• The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

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  Art, Mean, Literature

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• A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

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  Kings, People, Giving

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• I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

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  Encouragement, Strong, Character

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• Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if there are rights, there is an authority to which we appeal for them.

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  Rights, Liberty, Authority

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• No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.

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  Children, Tired, Hot

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• It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

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  Discipline, Materialism, Old Fashioned

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.

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  Average, Way, Agnostic

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• Shouldn't atheist have an equal obligation to explain pleasure in a world of randomness. Where does pleasure come from?

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  Atheist, Atheism, Doe

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• A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

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  Intelligent, Seems, Sections

  "The Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1936.

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• Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

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  Acceptance, Humanity, Kinship

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• When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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  Love, Experience, Exhausted

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• The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

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  Nature, Book, Enchantment

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

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  Nature, Spring, Environment

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• The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

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  Men, Gun, Power

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