K. Chesterton
K. Chesterton
suffering our-society culture
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
people done experts
It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.
government hard representatives
It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.
government ugly
All government is an ugly necessity.
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.