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."
Perversion
« Otez le surnaturel, il ne reste plus que ce qui n’est pas naturel. »
« L’humanité est déséquilibrée à l’endroit du sexe et la santé véritable ne lui est permise que dans la sainteté. »
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