I will be posting something of my own later but in the meantime, and in an effort to keep my new commenter, Michael, from actually doing any work at all!, here are a couple of Chesterton quotes stolen from the absolutely excellent site: In Pursuit of Copiousness and if you put your e-mail into his site he will send you quotes on a daily basis:
"... the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right to rebel against anything."
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, (p. 34)
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"If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. Thus it is considered more withering to accuse a man of bad taste than of bad ethics. Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offense. A playwright can attack the institution of marriage so long as he does not misrepresent the manners of society, and I have met Ibsenite pessimists who thought it wrong to take beer but right to take prussic acid."
- G.K. Chesterton, in his essay "On Lying in Bed"
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And here is one for my American e-pals by Jonah Goldberg:
“It is telling that while we constantly hear about America’s racist past and our need to redeem ourselves via racial quotas, slavery reparations, and other overtures toward ‘historically oppressed groups,’ it is rare indeed that anyone mentions the founders of American liberalism. Again, when liberals are the historical villains, the crime is laid at the feet of America itself. The crime is considered proof of America’s conservative past. When conservatives sin, the sin is conservatism’s alone. But never is liberalism itself to blame.”
Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism (p. 261)
