Utopia of Usurers Quotes

“Many great religions, Pagan and Christian, have insisted on wine. Only one, I think, has insisted on Soap. You will find it in the New Testament attributed to the Pharisees.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“Wait and see whether the religion of the Servile State is not in every case what I say: the encouragement of small virtues supporting capitalism, the discouragement of the huge virtues that defy it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“The new community which the capitalists are now constructing will be a very complete and absolute community; and one which will tolerate nothing really independent of itself.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“Informer'... means one who gives information. It means what 'journalist' ought to mean. The only difference is that the Common Informer may be paid if he tells the truth. The common journalist will be ruined if he does.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“What happens when everyone is asleep is called Evolution. What happens when everyone is awake is called Revolution.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays

“The big commercial concerns of to-day are quite exceptionally incompetent. They will be even more incompetent when they are omnipotent.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers

“Definitions are very dreadful things: they do the two things that most men, especially comfortable men, cannot endure. They fight; and they fight fair.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Utopia of Usurers