Month: November 2025

The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

Gk Chesterton
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

Gk Chesterton
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gk Chesterton
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Neither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either.

Gk Chesterton
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The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

Gk Chesterton
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

Gk Chesterton
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Fallacies, which do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

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

Gk Chesterton
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Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

Gk Chesterton
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Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men…. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

Gk Chesterton
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