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
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.
men swings ideas
The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.
fire romance heaven
I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.
people progress machines
None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
air space long
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.