. . . For friendship implies individuality; whereas comradeship really implies the temporary subordination, if not the temporary swamping of individuality. Friends are the better for being two; but comrades are the better for being two million.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.
Gilbert K. ChestertonChristianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. ChestertonHe is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.
Gilbert K. ChestertonFairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.
Gilbert K. Chesterton