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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Spiritual, War, Men

As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the Ark was discredited by the Flood. When the world goes wrong, it proves rather that the Church is right. The Church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Children, War, Views

A man who says that no patriot should attack the Boer War until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is saying that no good son should warn his mother off a cliff until she has fallen over it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mother, Peace, War
"The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton". Vol.I: Non-Fiction,

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Song, War, Men
Ballad of the White Horse (1911) bk. 2, p. 35

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Dragons, Fairytale

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Revolution, Generations

You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Country, War, Men
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

The old assumption of the approximate impossibility of war really rested on a similar assumption about the impossibility of evil-and especially of evil in high places.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Evil, Assumption

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Men, Evil
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Song Of Defeat”

Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Past, Ideas
"Daily News", February 18, 1905.

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Differences, Would Be

War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Differences, Way

How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Revolution, Grows

The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Fighting, Storm

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Peace, War, Defense

You have not wasted your time; you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
War, Men, World
Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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