The Appetite of Tyranny Quotes

“To give up one's love for one's country is very great. But to give up one's hate for one's country, this may also have in it something of pride and something of purification.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian

“Unless we are all mad, there is at the back of the most bewildering business a story: and if we are all mad, there is no such thing as madness. If I set a house on fire, it is quite true that I may illuminate many other people's weaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burned because he was drunk; it may be that the mistress of the house was burned because she was stingy, and perished arguing about the expense of the fire-escape. It is, nevertheless, broadly true that they both were burned because I set fire to their house.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian