 Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Speaker, 12/15/1900
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Cleveland Press, 3/1/21
When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
London Daily News
Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw
We deny the snobbish assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great poisoning princes of the Renaissance. We say that the most dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral people, and my heart goes out to them.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Man who was Thursday
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
wikipedia
We fight for the trust and for the tryst; for fixed memories and the possible meeting of men; for all that makes life anything but an uncontrollable nightmare. We fight for the long arm of honour and remembrance; for all that can lift a man above the quicksands of his moods, and give him the mastery of time.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Appetite of Tyranny
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