Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

I don't mind fighting as long as it's for a good cause.

Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost.

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right for the movement.

I want to stand for something, and it's probably going to be something that some people stand against.

Well, I get on with people who believe in something.

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

I would rather have a man that knows and loves what he fights for... than a man which you call a "gentleman".

Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.

If your values don't alienate anyone, it is just platitude.

You have to stand by your beliefs.

There are things worth fighting for.

If you're not at least willing to die for something- something that really matters- in the end, you die for nothing.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

I entirely appreciate loyalty to one"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

Just remember, Every day of your lives, you must always be sure what you’re fighting for.

What matters in a character is not whether one holds this or that opinion: what matters is how proudly one upholds it.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

We're at a time now where there's a lot more "I'll do whatever it takes" attitude. I'm not going to say or do what you want me to say or do just because it might help me or be the politically correct thing to do to help my career. And that may have hurt me sometimes. I think about different collaborations that have been brought my way - it might have meant I'd get to be on TV to do certain things, but I've said, "No. It doesn't make sense. I'm not doing it." And other people might jump at the opportunity.

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

When you get . . . to the end, you see that love and family are all there is. Nothing else matters.