for X
“So, what can be done, if anything? Not much. The Church must pass through this trial that will shake the belief of many, and even if this is not the final apostasy prophesied in the Catehchism, it is certainly a Western apostasy.”
But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers. Now, while admiring, as others doubtless will admire, the details we have to relate, our main preoccupation concerned a matter to which no one before ourselves had given a thought. D'Artagnan
Alexandre Dumas • The Three Musketeers
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“Life is a series of disappoints, of promises that come to nothing”
People are entitled to self-government; that is, to such government as is self-made. They are not necessarily entitled to a special and elaborate machinery that somebody else has made. It is their right to make it for themselves, but it is also their duty to think of it for themselves.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • The New Jerusalem
on immigration
The mystics are very likely to be the martyrs when the psychologists become the kings.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
When I say that religion and marriage and local loyalty are permanent in humanity, I mean that they recur when humanity is most human; and only comparatively decline when society is comparatively inhuman.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
I found it was their daily taunt against Christianity that it was the light of one people and had left all others to die in the dark. But I also found that it was their special boast for themselves that science and progress were the discovery of one people, and that all other peoples had died in the dark.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the modern world will find out more and more to be a fact.