Catholicism is not ritualism; it may in the future be fighting some sort of superstitious and idolatrous exaggeration of ritual. Catholicism is not asceticism; it has again and again in the past repressed fanatical and cruel exaggerations of asceticism. Catholicism is not mere mysticism; it is even now defending human reason against the mere mysticism of the Pragmatists.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLiterary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBig Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
Gilbert K. Chesterton