Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Passion

• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Life, Hate, Passion

• Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Passion, Men, Postman

• 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

• You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Passion, Beard

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• Passion makes every detail important.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Passion, Important, Details

• Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Passion, Men

• It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Passion, Selfishness, Doctrine

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