Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Justice

• It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Justice, Charity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (1909). “Heretics”

• For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Children, Justice

  "The Coloured Lands". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1938.

• Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Roots, Drawing

• To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Justice, Islam, Borders

• The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Education, Learning, Justice

• Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  Tremendous Trifles "The Twelve Men" (1909)

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