“The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern world is insane, not so much because it admits the abnormal as because it cannot recover the normal.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I found the whole modern world talking scientific fatalism; saying that everything is as it must always have been, being unfolded without… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But the whole modern world, or at any rate the whole modern Press, has a perpetual and consuming terror of plain morals.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas.… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If better conditions will make the poor more fit to govern themselves, why should not better conditions already make the rich more… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Only the Christian Church can offer any rational objection to a complete confidence in the rich. For she has maintained from the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
