1,399 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Plato was right, but not quite right.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

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.

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?