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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Government, Hard, Representatives

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hustle, Culture, Strange

A man imagines a happy marriage as a marriage of love; even if he makes fun of marriages that are without love, or feels sorry for lovers who are without marriage.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love, Fun, Sorry

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mistake, Fads, Noble

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Christmas, Business, Turkeys

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Dirty, Luxury, People

What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Choices, Soul, Morality

Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Business, Socialism, Economic

Price is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Crazy, Economic, Indestructible

Business, especially big business, is now organized like an army. It is, as some would say, a sort of mild militarism without bloodshed; as I say, a militarism without the military virtues.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Business, Military, Army

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Rich, Pity
Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays "The Utopia of Usurers" (1917)

Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Girl, Mother, Home
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.360, Simon and Schuster

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Answers, Demand, Want

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Doe, Littles, Pay
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

You can't have the family farm without the family.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Economic, Family Farms, Farms

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, Decay, Literature

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, Fun, Broken

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Art, Mean, Literature

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Kings, People, Giving

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the unimportance of religion would not be needlessly emphasised.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Encouragement, Strong, Character

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Giving Up, Wine, Intelligent
"The Victorian Age in Literature" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, University of Notre Dame Press, (p. 20), 1963.

The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage, Community, Soldier
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Courage, Men, Tablets

The only object of liberty is life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Liberty, Objects

Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Practice, Ideas, People

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