Good man Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

8 Good man quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Chesterton shares eight brief observations about the good man. The statements are witty yet concise, giving a swift sense of his moral imagination.

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All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

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The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred…

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Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to…

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It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

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There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

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A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and…

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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners,…

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Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity.

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Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means…

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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

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Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes…

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For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the…

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Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

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A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

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The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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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…

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Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

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The word good has many meanings...

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage…

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