In my latest Epoch Times column I revert to a proposal I first made 31 years ago in Fraser Forum to reform the budging process by getting back to basics, because the past three decades and particularly the last five years have underlined the dangerous feebleness of the standard approach.
“As Chesterton put it ‘Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good.’ Ivan [Karamazov] may seem as though he is tired of evil, but through his disdain for evil, he rejects not what is evil, but what is good.”
Fred Berg in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)
“Live your life so folks won’t have to lie at your funeral”
A sign at “First Baptist Church American Baptist Association” [no other information visible] posted on Instagram by c_mccourt 221002
“Chesterton says in The Everlasting Man that murder and hatred of children are always associated with witchcraft, which comes from demons.”
Fred Berg in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)
“Sir, it seems that you are no better a judge of human beings than you are a specimen of one.”
Buster Scruggs responding to an insult from a low-life bandit in the film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [https://youtu.be/g_XLQDeYqpE?t=49]
“Fashion is but a fickle sort of convention. We cannot be expected to admire a slave of convention for being unconventional.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News July 23, 1921, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)
“All that can be said is that when man doesn’t make trouble for himself, nature makes it for him.”
Link Byfield in The Report Jan. 3, 2000 [on the general subject of it not being possible to predict what trouble would next come along].
“The opinions which nobody can agree with are mostly in the books that nobody can read.”
G.K. Chesterton quoted without further attribution as header quotation on the book review section of Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #6 (July/August 2022)