What's Wrong with the World Quotes

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:educationteaching

“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:education

“this cult of the future is not only a weakness but a cowardice of the age.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:futureweaknesscowardice

“And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:futurepast

“I say decisively that nothing is so marked in modern writing as the prediction of such ideals in the future combined with the ignoring of them in the past.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:futurepast

“But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:society

“In everything on this earth that is worth doing, there is a stage when no one would do it, except for necessity or honor.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:action

“Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is that which must be personal and may be perverse.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:art

“Man, we say, has two sides, the specialist side where he must have subordination, and the social side where he must have equality.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:equality

“We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:willdemocracy