“If a man uses a right wrongly, the answer is for everybody to use their rights rightly; not to give up all their rights on chance of curing the wrong.”

—G K Chesterton.

“A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense has really become very uncommon. Straightforward ideas appear strange or unfamiliar, and any thought that does not follow the conventional curve or twist, is supposed to be a sort of joke.”

——G. K. Chesterton.

“Everybody is talking, with a not unnatural excitement, about the wonderful opportunity which broadcasting will give us to send our words to a remote continent. Nobody seems concerned to ask whether we’ve anything to say even to the next street, let alone to the remote continent.”
—G K Chesterton.

“The teacher is allowed to say that twice two is four, not because it is less dogmatic, but because it is less disputed. In other words, education is easy when dogma is universal. It only becomes difficult when men are divided about dogmas.”
—G K Chesterton.

“Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one’s soul.”
—G K Chesterton.

“A man making experiments in chemistry must expect chemical explosions, and a man making experiments in ethics must expect ethical explosions.”

—G K Chesterton.

“It is obvious that all marriages are imprudent marriages; just as all births are imprudent births. If prudence is your main concern, or if (in other words) you are a coward, it is certainly better not to be married; and even better not to be born.”

—G K Chesterton.