14 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton about Mean
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Not only does "orthodox" no longer mean being right, it practically means being wrong.
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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.
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The word 'heresy' not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong
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Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.
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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.
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Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.
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Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.
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Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.
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The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.
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