Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
More Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
-
-
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
All government is an ugly necessity.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON -
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON






