“For as Chesterton remarked, you cannot introduce anarchy into the intellect without also introducing anarchy into the commonwealth.”

Link Byfield in British Columbia Report November 17, 1997

“Most fundamental falsehoods are errors in language as well as in philosophy. Most statements that are unreasonable are really ungrammatical.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News October 16, 1909 quoted in “More About Language” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)

“The worst of using strong language is that it produces weak language.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News June 28, 1926 quoted in “More About Language” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)

“Ladborough discovered that Lewis got on well with the college servants, who respected and admired him as a person without realizing that he was, in Ladborough’s words, ‘a great man.’ They called him a real gentleman, for he seemed to care about them. This manner of his reflects his greatness. He was not great because of the books he wrote; he wrote the kind of books he wrote because he was great.”

Harry Lee Poe The Completion of C.S. Lewis

“The reasonable people (for I know some quite reasonable people who allow me to talk to them), the rationalists, the liberal progressive people all say, ‘The Indian need is Independence; it must be a self-governing unit,’ and so on. Then they both say, ‘Let us hope no silly squabbles about religion will spoil this great unity,’ whether Imperial or National. Now I am so perverse that I think the religious squabbles are much less silly than the political squabbles. I am much more certain that there is such a thing as Islam than there is such a thing as India. I believe much more in the existence of a Hindoo than in the existence of an Indian. And I think the difficulties do arise from the doctrines; but much more from the trick of ignoring the doctrines.”

G.K. Chesterton in “The Thing They Left Out” in the New York American January 9, 1932 reprinted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023)

“It would be impolitic to suggest [Chrystia] Freeland has gone bananas, but she has definitely been at the fruit bowl.”

Michael Higgins in National Post June 11, 2024 [re the Canadian Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister suddenly claiming that without their capital gains tax increase the rich will live in fortified enclaves while the poor burn everything else down].

“Signs of a narcissistic sociopath/ 1. They live in a deluded reality/ 2. They are obsessed with power and control/ 3. They take advantage of and use other people/ 4. They have no moral boundaries/ 5 They have a limited range of emotions/ 6. They have a huge discard pile/ 7. They become hostile when threatened/ 8. They feed off negative energy/ 9. They get bored easily/ 10. They are empty inside”

Arrived in my X feed in January 2024 (with regard to a particular politician but they're not the only ones).

James “Madison was the Father of the Constitution, Architect of the Bill of Rights, and the only Secretary of State never to have left the country. The oldest of 12 children, he could read and write in seven languages. He attended the College of New Jersey (which became Princeton) instead of William and Mary – where Jefferson went and got all those Scottish Enlightenment Ideas.”

Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #3 (Jan.-Feb. 2024)