Quotes by G. K. Chesterton

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
~ G. K. Chesterton in A Short History of England (1917), page 120

“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
~ G. K. Chesterton in The Everlasting Man (1925), Ch. 6

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
~ G. K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News, April 19, 1930