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G. K. Chesterton Quotes
«Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools.»
«There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.»
«The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.»
«Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
act, action, Act of, choose, choose up, desire, else, in that, limitation, reject, sacrifice, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificing, self, sense
«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.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Conservatism
| Keywords:
conservatism, Leave It, torrent