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You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

GK Chesterton

To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...

G. K. Chesterton

When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

G. K. Chesterton

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G. K. Chesterton

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it—or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

G. K. Chesterton

Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A tragey means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

G.k. Chesterton

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G. K. Chesterton

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.

G. K. Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

G. K. Chesterton

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.

G. K. Chesterton

[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.

G. K. Chesterton

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