For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the… — 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
Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age:… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and… — 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
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
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
Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for… — 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
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
Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the… — 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
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
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
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
The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who… — 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
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
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
Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those… — 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
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
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
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
And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me. — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
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
Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass… — 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
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
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
![“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…” quote by Hilaire Belloc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/913/hilaire-belloc-2294_book_for-no-one-in-our-long-decline-so-dusty_140002.jpg)
