Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Compromise

• Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, Suffering, Fads

• Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Half, Literature

  1910 What's Wrong with the World, ch.3.

• Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hate, Philosophy, Real

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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