These are the things which might conceivably and truly make men forgive their enemies. We can only turn hate to love by understanding what are the things that men have loved; nor is it necessary to ask men to hate their loves in order to love one another. Just as two grocers are most likely to be reconciled when they remember for a moment that they are two fathers, so two nationals are most likely to be reconciled when they remember (if only for a moment) that they are two patriots.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men'smarriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize andsegregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a fewgreat hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens,as nurses do with a family of children. It is not anarchy, it istyranny; but tyranny is a workable thing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton