What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.
G.K. ChestertonAmong the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
G.K. ChestertonTag: wealth greed generosity
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
G.K. ChestertonThere is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
G.K. ChestertonThe Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.
G.K. ChestertonIt is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.
G.K. ChestertonA man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.
G.K. ChestertonI have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel.
G.K. ChestertonIt is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
G.K. ChestertonIt is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
G.K. ChestertonTag: science evolution creation-science evolutionary-process
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