Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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