There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.
Gilbert K. ChestertonBigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhen people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
Gilbert K. Chesterton