We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor." — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
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… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share
