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It has been discovered that w...

It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

When one remembers how the Ca...

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Time after time mankind is dr...

Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

The old freedom sufficiently ...

The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and maintenance from the capitalist state, he can still be a full citizen. He thinks he can have his cake and eat it too. He is mistaken. The great capitalists who procured these regulations from the politicians knew what they were at. They were catching their proletariat in a net, and now they hold it fast.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

We may not say to the poor: "...

We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

It is Mind which determines t...

It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave became a serf and was on his way to becoming a peasant and a fully free man-a man free economically as well as politically. The whole spirit of the Church was for small property, and that spirit was slowly, instinctively, working for the establishment of small property throughout Christendom.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

The society of Christendom an...

The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

But if we are to retain freed...

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

The world is full of double b...

The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

I am writing a book about the...

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

From quiet homes and first be...

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

I'm tired of love; I'm still ...

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

An institute run with such kn...

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Money gives me pleasure all t...

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Child! Do not throw this book...

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Oh, my friends, be warned by ...

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

The microbe is so very small:...

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

When friendship disappears th...

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

It is the best of all trades,...

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Statistics are the triumph of...

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

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