As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBrave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThat 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