Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions. It is the resistance offered to definite ideas by that vague bulk of people whose ideas are indefinite to excess. Bigotry may be called the appalling frenzy of the indifferent. This frenzy of the indifferent is in truth a terrible thing; […]
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
(A skeptic) may turn over and explore a million objects, but he must not find that strange object, the universe; for if he does he will have a religion, and be lost.
I had intended this article to be the last of those outlining the elements of this debate; but I shall have to add a short concluding section on the way in which all this is missed in the practical (or rather unpractical) proposals about divorce. Here I will only say that they suffer from the […]
Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones Dead” to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen, Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbor.
When the scientist talks about a “type”, he never means himself, but always his neighbor; preferably his poorer neighbor.
