Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

It is always easy to take a position when society agrees with you. It is hard to take a position that everyone else in society disagrees with.

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

Speaking up for the truth isn't always easy. It takes courage, but it's necessary.

When it was not very comfortable, politically, for me, I said things which lots of people didn't like, some of them may have liked. I said my beliefs, my truth, and my convictions, and that's how I am going to continue to do in the future.

You defend the truth no matter what.

I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery.

I'm never concerned about my beliefs hurting me in any way. I'd rather lose a job than have to lie.

If I see something right, I say so.

I might sound audacious, but the Mahatma has been a great inspiration. He had the conviction to live with his beliefs in the face of total disbelief.

We have to stand for the truth.

I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.

I'm going to stand in my truth no matter what.

Sacrifice life to truth.

I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue.

We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.

When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.

My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.