The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. ChestertonInstead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the least of a person with his hair parted in the middle or his hands clasped in appeal, but of an extraordinary being with lips of thunder and acts of lurid decision, flinging down tables, casting out devils, passing with the wild secrecy of the wind from mountain isolation to a sort of dreadful demagogy; a being who often acted like an angry god — and always like a god.
Gilbert K. Chesterton