Tag: Quote of the Day

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton