A blog dedicated to providing quotes by and posts relating to one of the most influential (and quotable!) authors of the twentieth century, G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936). If you do not know much about GKC, I suggest visiting the webpage of the American Chesterton Society as well as this wonderful Chesterton Facebook Page by a fellow Chestertonian

I also have created a list detailing examples of the influence of Chesterton if you are interested, that I work on from time to time.

(Moreover, for a list of short GKC quotes, I have created one here, citing the sources)

"...Stevenson had found that the secret of life lies in laughter and humility."

-Heretics (1905)
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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Sounds like modern America as well...

The trouble with modern England is not how many or how few people vote. It is that, however many people vote, a small ring of administrators do what they please

-August 30, 1909, Daily News

4 comments:

coffeepotcurve said...

scary accurate

Mike said...

Unfortunately. :-(

Richard Ernst said...

the next part of that quote is even more applicable...

"...Before people can vote against this ring, people must know about it; and the ring has decided people shall not know."

Mike said...

Very true...

Another relevant quote from the same letter:

"Liberty is a spirit, without which vote are useless..."