Home > Work > The Outline of Sanity

The Outline of Sanity QUOTES

The Outline of Sanity QUOTES

1 " A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate. "

― G.K. Chesterton , The Outline of Sanity

2 " There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants. "

― G.K. Chesterton , The Outline of Sanity

3 " The aim of human polity is human happiness...There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or in any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier. Mankind has as much right to scrap its machinery and live on the land, if he really likes it better, as any man has to sell his old bicycle and go for a walk, if he likes that better. It is obvious that the walk will be slower; but he has no duty to be fast. "

― G.K. Chesterton , The Outline of Sanity

4 " Pero en alguna parte, en el centro de la civilización, debería haber un tipo que sería verdaderamente independiente, en el sentido de que produciría y consumiría dentro de su propia esfera social. "

― G.K. Chesterton , The Outline of Sanity