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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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There is in stupidity of this sort a strange slippery strength: because it can be not only outside rules but outside reason. The man who really cannot see that he is contradicting himself has a great advantage in controversy; though the advantage breaks down when he tries to reduce it to simple addition, to chess, or to the game called war.
-- (1915) The Appetite of Tyranny

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G K Chesterton Quotes · @GKCDaily
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The rich man to-day does not only rule by using private property; he also rules by treating public property as if it were private property.
--G K Chesterton (1917) "Utopia of Users"

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