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* "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

* "A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

* "Nothing is more common, for instance, than to find such a modem critic writing something like this: 'Christianity was above all a movement of ascetics, a rush into the desert, a refuge in the cloister, a renunciation of all life and happiness; and this was a part of a gloomy and inhuman reaction against nature itself, a hatred of the body, a horror of the material universe, a sort of universal suicide of the senses and even of the self. It came from an eastern fanaticism like that of the fakirs and was ultimately founded on an eastern [[pessimism]], which seems to feel existence itself as an [[evil]].' Now the most extraordinary thing about this is that it is all quite true; it is true in every, detail except that it happens to be attributed entirely to the wrong person. It is not true of the Church; but it is true of the heretics condemned by the Church."

* "Nothing is more common, for instance, than to find such a modem critic writing something like this: 'Christianity was above all a movement of ascetics, a rush into the desert, a refuge in the cloister, a renunciation of all life and happiness; and this was a part of a gloomy and inhuman reaction against nature itself, a hatred of the body, a horror of the material universe, a sort of universal suicide of the senses and even of the self. It came from an eastern fanaticism like that of the fakirs and was ultimately founded on an eastern [[pessimism]], which seems to feel existence itself as an [[evil]].' Now the most extraordinary thing about this is that it is all quite true; it is true in every, detail except that it happens to be attributed entirely to the wrong person. It is not true of the Church; but it is true of the heretics condemned by the Church."

*"In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."<ref>[https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/ Taking a Fence Down]</ref>

*"In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a [[paradox]]. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."<ref>[https://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/ Taking a Fence Down]</ref>

*"Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave."<ref>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/472193-christendom-has-had-a-series-of-revolutions-and-in-each</ref>

*"Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave."<ref>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/472193-christendom-has-had-a-series-of-revolutions-and-in-each</ref>

*“For the next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on [[morality]]; and especially on sexual morality. And it is coming, not from a few Socialists surviving from the [[Fabian Society]], but from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last, with neither Popery nor [[Puritan]]ism nor Socialism to hold them back … The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan.”<ref>G.K. Chesterton, "The Next Heresy," in G.K.’s Weekly, June 19, 1926.</ref>

*“For the next great heresy is going to be simply an attack on [[morality]]; and especially on sexual morality. And it is coming, not from a few Socialists surviving from the [[Fabian Society]], but from the living exultant energy of the rich resolved to enjoy themselves at last, with neither Popery nor [[Puritan]]ism nor Socialism to hold them back … The madness of tomorrow is not in Moscow, but much more in Manhattan.”<ref>G.K. Chesterton, "The Next Heresy," in G.K.’s Weekly, June 19, 1926.</ref>