For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
G.K. ChestertonWhen a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
G.K. ChestertonIf you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
G.K. ChestertonThere cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
G.K. ChestertonHe is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
G.K. ChestertonSelf-denial is the test and definition of self-government.
G.K. ChestertonThe modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.
G.K. ChestertonMy attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.
G.K. ChestertonThe modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
G.K. ChestertonNone of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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