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Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democracy, Progress, Majority

Progress is the mother of all problems.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mother, Progress, Problem

The past is not what it was.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Past, Progress, Cult

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Believe, Men, Progress

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nice, People, Progress
"Alarms and Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
People, Progress, Machines

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Progress, Age, Minorities

Progress is the mother of problems.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mother, Progress, Problem
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2012). “The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton”, p.65, Ignatius Press

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mean, Vision, Progress

Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Reality, Men, Progress

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Progress Of Society, Progress, Cult
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Progress, Doctrine, Needs
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men, Progress, Looks
"What's Wrong with the World" by G. K. Chesterton, (Part One: The Homelessness Of Man, Ch. 4), 1910.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Progress, Leisure, Action

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