The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted… — 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
