Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by… — 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
How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like… — 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
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Life is a veil, its paths are dark and rough Only because we do not know enough When Science has discovered something… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. — 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
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
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
“I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Is there any reward? I'm beginning to doubt it. I am broken and bored, Is there any reward? Reassure me, Good Lord,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“No, she laughed." How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say ‘No’ at the same time,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image