Chesterton Quote by Charles W. Colson

“British writer G. K. Chesterton’s reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject “What’s Wrong with the World?”…

— Dale Carnegie

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to…

— Theodor Adorno

“a being as dependent on his cultural inheritance as man cannot escape convention so easily: and the desire to do so has itself become…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“A man who has suffered some humiliation invents a theory that he is King of England, and develops all kinds of ingenious explanations of…

— Bertrand Russell

“The universal dress of philosophy and philanthropy can conceal repression, violations of the true personal, human, local, civil, and national freedom”

— Johann Gottfried Herder

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual,…

— Aldous Huxley

“It is a new step towards independence, once a man dares to express opinions that bring disgrace on him if he entertains them; then…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is useful to know something of the manners of different nations, that we may be enabled to form a more correct judgment regarding…

— René Descartes

“A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural…

— René Girard