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The machine does not control ...

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

But scientists, who ought to ...

But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

The very large units of produ...

The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon the prospect of their success, and always upon terms far easier than are open to their smaller rivals. It is perhaps on this line of easier credit that large capital today does most harm to small capital, drives it out and ruins it.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Kings live in Palaces, and Pi...

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

In the form of security and s...

In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Matilda told such dreadful li...

Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

I said to Heart, "How goes it...

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: "Right as a Ribstone Pippin!" But it lied.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

If antiquity be the only test...

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

For no one, in our long decli...

For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth the wear of winning,But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22]You do retain the song we set,And how it rises, trips and scans?You keep the sacred memory yet,Republicans? Republicans?[stanza 36]

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

How slow the shadow creeps: b...

How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Wherever the Industrial syste...

Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized proletariat for sustenance without relation to the product of its labor; a demand which threatens the very existence of PROFIT (on the necessary presumption of which Capitalism reposes). The second, and immediately graver danger is that of a revolt for the confiscation of the means of production.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Oh, you should never, never d...

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

For one thing, I was no longe...

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

The terror in which English c...

The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Time after time mankind is dri...

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.

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Put you hand before your eyes ...

Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

When one remembers how the Cat...

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

The choice lies between proper...

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

The moment a man talks to his ...

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Before the curse of statistics...

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

Hilaire Belloc 170 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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