"Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades."
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Men
― Gilbert K. Chesterton
More From Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life."
- "A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen."
- "Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
More In Men
- "In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable."― Hypatia
- "I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road."― Benjamin F. Wade
- "It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."― Norman Schwarzkopf