Faith Quote by Hilaire Belloc

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

— Hilaire Belloc

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hilaire Belloc