G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World Quotes
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.
But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.
This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.
Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.
When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.
A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat.