Twelve Types: A Collection of Mini-Biographies

by G.K. Chesterton

Have we really learnt to think more broadly? Or have we only learnt to spread our thoughts thinner?

It is too much the custom in politics to describe a political opponent as utterly inhumane, as utterly careless of his country, as utterly cynical, which no man ever was since the beginning of the world.

Compare with the critique of Steinbeck's Moon is Down

We might be angry at the libel, but not at the satire; for a man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.