It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIf we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThere is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth
Gilbert K. ChestertonFaith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.
Gilbert K. Chesterton...there is in life an element of elfin coincidence which people reckoning on the prosaic may perpetually miss. As it has been well expressed in the paradox of Poe, wisdom should reason on the unforeseen.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces different first principles, making debate impossible: and debate is the life of democracy; (3) because the fading of the images of sacred persons leaves a man too prone to be a respecter of earthly persons; (4) because there will be more, not less, respect for human rights if they can be treated as divine rights.
Gilbert K. Chesterton