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What's Wrong with the World quotes

G. K. Chesterton

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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“When a man really tells the truth, the first truth he tells is that he himself is a liar.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“if a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“this cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Our political vagueness divides men, it does not fuse them.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“the woman does not work because the man tells her to work and she obeys. On the contrary, the woman works because she has told the man to work and he hasn't obeyed.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Now most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“What is wrong is that we do not ask what is right.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“For in all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“a fundamental quality in the female tradition . . . The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“In everything on this earth that is worth doing, there is a stage when no one would do it, except for necessity or honor.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is that which must be personal and may be perverse.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Comradeship is obvious and universal and open; but it is only one kind of affection; it has characteristics that would destroy any other kind. Anyone who has known true comradeship in a club or in a regiment, knows that it is impersonal.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Sybarites bathe in wine, and Nonconformists drink water; but we are not concerned with these frantic exceptions.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“Man, we say, has two sides, the specialist side where he must have subordination, and the social side where he must have equality.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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