The New Rebel

G.K. Chesterton: from Orthodoxy: The Romance of Faith (33, 41-42)

The new rebel is a skeptic, and will not trust anything...therefore he can
never be really a revolutionary. For all denunciation implies a moral
doctrine of some kind...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...There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be
stopped.