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The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Real, Men, Community
"Heretics". Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Institution of the Family", 1905.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Community, World
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

What is the good of telling a community that it has every liberty except the liberty to make laws? The liberty to make laws is what constitutes a free people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Law, People, Community
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

A third-class carriage is a community, while a first-class carriage is a place of wild hermits.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Class, Community, Firsts
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

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

The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Independent, Community, Tolerate
"Utopia of Usurers". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, pp. 33-34, 1917.

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