Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Revolution
-
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.
→ -
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.
→ -
Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
→ -
Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.
→ -
Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.
→ -
Science is the study of the admitted laws of existence, which cannot prove a universal negative about whether those laws could ever be suspended by something admittedly above them. It is as if we were to say that a lawyer was so deeply learned in the American Constitution that he knew there could never be a revolution in America.
→ -
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
→
Related Authors
-
George Bernard Shaw Playwright -
Wilkie Collins Novelist -
Hilaire Belloc Writer -
Arthur Conan Doyle Physician -
J. R. R. Tolkien Writer -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Robert Louis Stevenson Novelist -
Charles Dickens Writer -
Dale Ahlquist Author -
Dorothy L. Sayers Writer -
H. G. Wells Writer -
George MacDonald Author -
Thomas Aquinas Priest -
Jorge Luis Borges Writer -
C. S. Lewis Novelist -
Oscar Wilde Writer -
Agatha Christie Novelist -
Henry David Thoreau Author -
Rudyard Kipling Writer -
Leo Tolstoy Writer