Politics Quotes by Hilaire Belloc

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man…

— Hilaire Belloc

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left…

— Hilaire Belloc

The whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

— Hilaire Belloc

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at…

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The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

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The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a…

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... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally…

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The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank…

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When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners…

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Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some…

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The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is…

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In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body…

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Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which…

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But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the…

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The old freedom sufficiently survives in the mind of the wage earner to give him the illusion that, while accepting insurance and…

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The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to…

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But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular…

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Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by…

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Capitalism had arisen through the misuse and exaggeration of certain rights, notably the right of property - the basis of economic freedom…

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In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially…

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The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from…

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The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of…

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Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into…

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Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without…

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The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and…

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Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in…

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To control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth…

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It is therefore our business to restore economic freedom through the restoration of the only institution under which it flourishes, which institution…

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We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in…

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Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in…

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Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly…

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The very large units of production and exchange have access to credit on a large scale, sometimes without any cover at all,…

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One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness…

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Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more…

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Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal…

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Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism…

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When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more…

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Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the…

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Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain…

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In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of…

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