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Modern Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
- Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf;…
- The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
- None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
- If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.
- 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…
- The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the…
- The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle,…
- Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.
- Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
- I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did…
- Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing;…
- Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally…
- Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.
- The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.
- A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask…
- Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;…
- Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as…
- A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted…
- There are two kinds of peacemakers in the modern world; and they are both, though in various ways, a nuisance. The first peacemaker is the…
- The modern world is not evil; in some ways the modern world is far too good. It is full of wild and wasted virtues. When…
- The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other…
- The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and…
- The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much…
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- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically… — Russell Baker
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home… — Edward Abbey
- Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there… — Dave Barry
- I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
- I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov