8 Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton about people

  • Author Gilbert K. Chesterton
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    The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

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    It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.

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    The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.

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    It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.

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    There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which theological Christianity crudely describes as the sin of avarice.

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    People decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.

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