Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG, better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox." Time magazine has observed of his writing style: "Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories—first carefully turning them inside out."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth29 May 1874
numbers peasants millionaire
There 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.
football party fighting
It 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.
dull lasts politician
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.
heart rebel conservative
He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative.
opposites silence answers
If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
liars men news
Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.
america voting democracy
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.
country america creeds
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
war revolution grows
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.
war differences way
War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.
war revolution generations
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
past progress cult
The past is not what it was.
progress age minorities
This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
progress leisure action
To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.