Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Parties

• A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

• While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Cheer, Party

• English experience indicates that when the two great political parties agree about something it is generally wrong.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, Government, Two

• It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Football, Party, Fighting

• Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, People, Could Have Been

  "What's Wrong with the World". Book of by G. K. Chesterton, Part Three: Feminism, or The Mistake About Woman, Ch. 11: The School for Hypocrites, 1910.

• The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, Anger, Rage

  "The Skeptic as a Critic" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1929.

• Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Dog, Wall

• The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, Humor, Play

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