At last a plagiarism! (kinda)
…. But the new rebel is a Skeptic, and will not entirely trust
anything. He has no loyalty; therefore he can never be really a revolutionist.
And the fact that he doubts everything really gets in his way when he wants to denounce
anything. For all denunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind; and the
modern revolutionist doubts not only the institution he denounces, but the
doctrine by which he denounces it. Thus he writes one book complaining that
imperial oppression insults the purity of woman, and then he writes another
book (about the sex problem) in which he insults it himself. He curses the
sultan because Christian girls lose their virginity, and then curses Mrs. Grundy
because they keep it. As a politician, he will cry out that war is a waste of
life, and then, as a philosopher, that all life is a waste of time. A Russian
pessimist will denounce a policeman for killing a peasant, and then prove by
the highest philosophical principles that the peasant ought to have killed
himself. A man denounces marriage as a lie, and then denounces aristocratic
profligates for treating it as a lie. He calls a flag a bauble, and then blames
the oppressors of Poland or Ireland because they take away that bauble. The man
of this school goes first to a political meeting, where he complains that
savages are treated as if they were beasts; then he takes his hat and umbrella
and goes on to a scientific meeting, where he proves that they practically are
beasts. In short, the modern revolutionist, being an infinite skeptic, is
always engaged in undermining his own mines. In his book on politics he attacks
men for trampling on morality; in his book on ethics he attacks morality for
trampling on men. Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically
useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost
his right to rebel against anything.
-------- Orthodoxy (G.K Chesterton )
Refer Page 52- 53 (depends on the size and publisher of the book :P )
P.S. I decided put something that is not mine but captured ma attention and the best thing is that i typed it from a actually paper book, didn't copy and paste from some quote webpage or some e book and for that hard work, i would feel justified if u had read it ;)
-------- Orthodoxy (G.K Chesterton )
Refer Page 52- 53 (depends on the size and publisher of the book :P )
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