Quote

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
Autobiographer
Biographer
Crime Writer
Essayist
Historian
Illustrator
Journalist
Literary Historian
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Beaconsfield
Buckinghamshire
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton
G. K. C.
Amount
Enforce
American
Psychoanalysis
May
Propose
Cropping
Without
Confession
Cranks
Establish
Absolution
Nonsense
Coercive
Anybody
Crank
Among
Eugenics

More quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Image
Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down... Why do we laugh? Because it is a grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant to his own imagination as he can.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The human race is always trying this dodge of making everything entirely easy but the difficulty which it shifts off one thing it shifts to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
In the end it will not matter to us whether we wrote well or ill whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
The pure modernist is merely a snob he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Image
We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
Gilbert K. Chesterton