Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Silence

• We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press... It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Silence, Needs, Censorship

• Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Silence, Modern, Tyranny

  Illustrated London News, 10 Oct. 1908

• Silence is the unbearable repartee.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Silence, Unbearable, Silence Is

• If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Opposites, Silence, Answers

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

• The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Laughter, Angel

• A yawn is a silent shout.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Yawning, Boredom, Silence

• Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Strong, Heart, Apology

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