Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Balance

• The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Business, Mistake, Political

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, 1924.

• Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Opposites, Balance, Christianity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

• No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hurt, Pain, Cities

• 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

  Men, Balance, Pieces

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