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Fighting Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight…
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
- You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
- The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we…
- I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when…
- The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
- What is the good of words if they aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there…
- There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.
- Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does not fear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any common…
- The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God's paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle - and not lose it.
- People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other…
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