Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Modernity
"The modern world is full of Christian ideas gone mad."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy, III, 1908
- « Le monde moderne est plein d'anciennes vertus chrétiennes devenues folles. »
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxie, III, 1908
« Le monde moderne est plein d'hommes qui s'en tiennent aux dogmes si fermement qu'ils ignorent même que ce sont des dogmes. »
"Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative."
"My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday."
Conservatism
« Tous les hommes qui dans l'histoire, ont eu une action réelle sur l'avenir, avaient les yeux fixés sur le passé. »
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Ce qui cloche dans le monde
Tradition
"I am very glad that our fashionable fiction seems to be full of a return to paganism, for it may possibly be the first step of a return to Christianity. Neo-pagans have sometimes forgotten, when they set out to do everything the old pagans did, that the final thing the old pagans did was to get christened."
Fatherland
"So awfully alive is that Christian thing called a nation that its very death is a living death. It is a living death which lasts a hundred times longer than any life of man."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton, The Thing Called a Nation