“Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.” Quote by Dick Cheney
“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.” WantNeedsLongSpaceProgressAirComfortQuietMannersGood ManFactoriesConsumerismImitationCultDecencyOverconsumptionGood MannersForefathersWholesale Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.” PeopleUseProgressModernMachinesCult Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even by firebrands from the earth.” StillsEarthRomanceHeavenFireProgressOughtDestroyedCultSuburbs Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go alternately from one extreme to the other. It is a shameful and even shocking fancy; it is the denial of the whole dignity of the mankind. When Man is alive he stands still. It is only when he is dead that he swings.” MenHas BeensStillsIdeasWholeLastsAliveProgressMankindCenturyHe ManDignityExtremesDenialCurseFancySwingsCultShockingShamefulPendulums Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.” ActionProgressLeisureCult Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.” AgeProgressMajorityConquerUnconsciousMinoritiesCult Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.” WarGenerationsRevolutionMarxismHeresyLimboRussian Revolution Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.” WayWarDifferencesBest WaySettlingPreventing Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.” StillsWarGrowsRevolutionRespectable Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton