black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

G. K. Chesterton

Related Topics

Business Difference Ideal State System

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Day Expectation Praise Way
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Enough Place Removal Yourself
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Age Forget Gold Man
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Construction Creation Existence Love
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
G. K. CHESTERTON

Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Heart Mindset Object Open
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Grace Grant Gratitude
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Media Silence Validation
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Committee Myself Search See
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Deep Mistake Truth Understand
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hang Politics Terrible
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
G. K. CHESTERTON

God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Feeling Greatness Man Reality
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Build Country Foundation Religion
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Hope Seem

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes