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Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Time, Sleep, Thinking
"Utopia of Usurers". Book by G. K. Chesterton, p. 31, 1917.

Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is changeful, mystical, fickle, delightful. Men are men, but Man is a woman.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sleep, Men, Humanity

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without possessions, eating anything they could get and sleeping anyhow on the ground. St. Francis answered him with that curious and almost stunning shrewdness which the unworldly can sometimes wield like a club of stone. He said, 'If we had any possessions, we should need weapons and laws to defend them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Brother, Sleep, Law

If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development, often a late development and very often indeed the end of societies that have been highly democratic. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fall, Tired, Sleep
"The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1925.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sleep, May, Architecture

He said he didn't very well understand how George was going to sleep any more than he did now, seeing that there were only twenty-four hours in each day.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Funny, Time, Sleep

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