The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSavages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
Gilbert K. ChestertonModern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
Gilbert K. ChestertonPrice is a crazy and incalculable thing, while Value is an intrinsic and indestructible thing.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.
Gilbert K. Chesterton