democracy 4
- Property is the ordinary person’s art: everyone should have something to shape as their own
- Democracy’s one real enemy may be civilization itself
G. K. Chesterton
English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936); author of Orthodoxy.
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What G. K. Chesterton says most about
religion 3
- Worshipping the god within is the worst kind of religion
- The only thought that ought to be stopped is the thought that stops thought
education 2
- State schools for the poor work against parents and impose the customs of the rich minority
- Education means being sure enough of something to dare to tell it to a child