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All but the hard hearted man m...

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

From the standpoint of any san...

From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Because a girl should have lon...

Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

There is only one thing that s...

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

[Capitalism is] that commercia...

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Our society is so abnormal tha...

Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses a trade, he chooses one of the ten thousand trades that involve looking after other people's property.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The real argument against aris...

The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Making the landlord and the te...

Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

You can't have the family farm...

You can't have the family farm without the family.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The decay of society is praise...

The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

Savages and modern artists are...

Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The beautification of the worl...

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

And all over the world, the ol...

And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its sad tales are of broken hearts; its happy tales are of broken heads.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

The aim of good prose words is...

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A good Moslem king was one who...

A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

I do not know much about Moham...

I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did on some one particular night, there is one sense at least in which I know what I should not find there. I apprehend that I should not find the work abounding in strong encouragements to the worship of idols; that the praises of polytheism would not be loudly sung; that the character of Mohammed would not be subjected to anything resembling hatred and derision; and that the great modern doctrine of the u

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

A man making the confession of...

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create; for he is making an outline and a shape. Mohamet created, when he forbade wine but allowed five wives: he created a very big thing, which we have still to deal with.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

To do Mohammed justice, his ma...

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

When people talk as if the Cru...

When 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 Chesterton 1598 quotes

Islam was something like a Chr...

Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from the reality of his body even at the expense of the sincerity of his soul.

Gilbert Chesterton 1598 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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