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“There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'”

— G. K. Chesterton · Patriotism

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”

— G. K. Chesterton · Art

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.”

— G. K. Chesterton · Morality

“If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.”

— G. K. Chesterton · Atheism

“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”

— G. K. Chesterton · Books

“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“If a rhinoceros were to enter this resteraunt now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I would be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“His horror is wild, but it is a sane horror.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category

“The most astonishing thing about miracles is that they happen.”

— G. K. Chesterton · No category