Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Slaves

• It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Husband, Ideas, Feminism

• Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Evil, Champion

• We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Ideas, Racist

• By all men bond to Nothing, Being slaves without a lord, By one blind idiot world obeyed, Too blind to be abhorred.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, World, Idiot

• The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Museums, Self, Intellectual

• Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Attitude, Learning, Mean

• There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tyrants, Two, Demand

• The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Talking, Civilization

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