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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/it-is-mind-which-determines-the-change-of-society-and-it-was-because/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-society-of-christendom-and-especially-of-western-christendom-up/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

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## More by Hilaire Belloc

> [All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/all-men-have-an-instinct-for-conflict-at-least-all-healthy-men/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/kings-live-in-palaces-and-pigs-in-sties-and-youth-in-expectation/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/communism-worked-honestly-by-officials-devoid-of-human-frailties-and/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/i-put-my-pencil-upon-the-paper-doubtfully-and-drew-little-lines/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/had-there-been-any-existent-vital-and-energetic-institution-left-in/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/before-the-curse-of-statistics-fell-upon-mankind-we-lived-a-happy/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/of-old-when-folk-lay-sick-and-sorely-tried-the-doctors-gave-them/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/it-is-mind-which-determines-the-change-of-society-and-it-was-because/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/for-no-one-in-our-long-decline-so-dusty-spiteful-and-divided-had/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-smaller-man-approaching-our-modern-banking-system-which-controls/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/under-the-old-philosophy-which-had-governed-the-high-middle-ages/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/torture-will-give-a-dozen-pence-or-more-to-keep-a-drab-from-bawling/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/of-courtesy-it-is-much-less-than-courage-of-heart-or-holiness-yet-in/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all, merely upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-very-large-units-of-production-and-exchange-have-access-to-credit/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

> [The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to receive the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hilaire-belloc/the-terror-in-which-english-capitalists-now-stand-of-organized/)

[Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hilaire-belloc/)

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