Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936
Birthday: May 29
Death: June 14
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality. . . . But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it.
source: "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VI : The Exposure, 1908.
topic: Men, Personality, Enemy, Morbidity, Great Personality
