“This is, indeed, the supreme absurdity of the modern world, that it imagines that it can introduce anarchy into the intellect without introducing anarchy into the commonwealth. It imagines that it can make its thoughts go crooked and its motor-cars will still go straight.”
—G K Chesterton.
“Sport is not so much a modern relaxation as a new religion; and is more serious and unsmiling even than most new religions.”
—G K Chesterton.
“If free thought means that we are not free to rebuke free-thinkers, it is surely a very one-sided sort of free thought. It means that they may say anything they choose about all we hold most dear, and we must not say anything we think in protest against all we hold most damnable.”
—G K Chesterton.
“We do not hide ourselves in the universal night of pessimism. We are the optimists in revolt. If anyone cares to call us the Conservatives in revolt, the case for our revolt is all the stronger.”
—G K Chesterton.
“The test of democracy is not whether the people vote, but whether the people rule.”
G K Chesterton.
“Pornography is not a thing to be argued about with one’s intellect, but to be stamped on with one’s heel.”
—G K Chesterton.
