Quotes by G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Obciously, it ought to be the oldest things that are taught to the youngest people; the assured and experienced truths t — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regar — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by the simplest of all — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
The principle is this: that in everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain and tedium that — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of ex — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already sover — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
...it is the fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain br — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
This cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age. — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them. — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar. — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Now our modern politics are full of a noisy forgetfulness; forgetfulness that the production of this [man's] happy and c — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost. ...Each human soul has i — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
A head can be beaten small enough until it fits the hat. — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afra — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right — G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World