“The issue is now quite clear. It is between light and darkness and every one must choose his side.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“War in the wide modern sense, is possible, not because more men disagree, but because more men agree.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We do wrong to seek peace in Nature; we should rather seek the nobler sort of war; and see all the trees… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The soldier must be calm in the thick of the battle," pursued the policeman. "The composure of an army is the anger… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in; and if any sceptic forgets it,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back. If he only… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Syme, staring. "The soldier must be… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It was like the face of some ancient archangel, judging justly after heroic wars. There was laughter in the eyes, and in… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I should say that there ought to be no war except religious war. If war is irreligious, it is immoral. No man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The very rationalists who jeer at the trial by combat, in the old feudal ordeal, do in fact accept a trial by… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Why does each thing on the earth war against each other thing? Why does each small thing in the world have to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And an even stronger example of Mr. Wells's indifference to the human psychology can be found in his cosmopolitanism, the abolition in… — 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
![“A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it. But there is an anti-patriot who honestly angers honest men…he is the uncandid candid friend…” quote by G.K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1e6/g-k-chesterton-224_friendship_a-man-who-says-that-no-patriot-should-at_1405575.jpg)
