Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936
Birthday: May 29
Death: June 14
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.
source: "Alarms and Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.
topic: Nice, People, Progress, Madhouses
