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I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.

Hilaire Belloc

Love, Money, Tired

Sonnets and Verse (1923) "Fatigued"

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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 Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.

Hilaire Belloc

Would Be, Needs, Restoration

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The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

Hilaire Belloc

Economic, Destroying, States

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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 standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.

Hilaire Belloc

Christian, Philosophy, Men

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The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Strong, Class

Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.84, TAN Books

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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 princes: a submission to rule, which, through sumptuary laws on food and drink, through conscription, through a cast-iron system of compulsory instruction for all on State ordered lines, and through a State examination at the gate of every profession, has almost killed the citizen's power to react upon that which controls him, and has almost destroyed that variety which is the mark of life.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Men, Law

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For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

Hilaire Belloc

Time, Liars, Aunt

Hilaire Belloc (1957). “Cautionary Tales for Children”, p.7, Library of Alexandria

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But if I be asked what sign we may look for to show that the advance of the faith is at hand I would answer by a word the modern world has forgotten: Persecution. When that shall once more be at work it will be morning.

Hilaire Belloc

Morning, Hands, Looks

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Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property-such as a Town Park-and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care of the affection of a thing which is his own.

Hilaire Belloc

Men, Care, Politics

Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.25, IHS Press

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The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

Lying, Men, Moments

Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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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 if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.

Hilaire Belloc

Stupid, Men, Years

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Hilaire Belloc

Love, Life, Friendship

Verses (1910) "Dedicatory Ode"

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[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse

Hilaire Belloc

Nurse, Findings

'Cautionary Tales' (1907) 'Jim'

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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 of doctrine whose adherents are called Communists and who desired the total subversion of what had been, hitherto unquestioned among civilized European men, the general doctrines of property and individual freedom.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Men, Doctrine

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But scientists, who ought to know Assure us that it must be so. Oh, let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about.

Hilaire Belloc

Humorous, Doubt, Scientist

Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.1205, Delphi Classics

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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 than what is regarded in a particular society as the reasonable level of subsistence. The lower ranks of labor will commonly have less, and if public relief were afforded even up to the wage-level of the lowest ranks of labor, that relief would compete in the labor market; check or dry up the supply of wage-labor. It would tend to render the performance of work by the wage-earner redundant.

Hilaire Belloc

Dry Up, Relief, Levels

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Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

Hilaire Belloc

Real, Writing, Sailing

Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

Hilaire Belloc

Lying, Hands, Issues

Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.20, IHS Press

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It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave became a serf and was on his way to becoming a peasant and a fully free man-a man free economically as well as politically. The whole spirit of the Church was for small property, and that spirit was slowly, instinctively, working for the establishment of small property throughout Christendom.

Hilaire Belloc

Men, Catholic, Mind

Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.47, TAN Books

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I am a sundial, and I make a botch
Of what is done much better by a watch.

Hilaire Belloc

Funny, Time, Watches

'On a Sundial' (1938)

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Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfulls.

Hilaire Belloc

Pain, Business, Doubt

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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 maintenance from the capitalist state, he can still be a full citizen. He thinks he can have his cake and eat it too. He is mistaken. The great capitalists who procured these regulations from the politicians knew what they were at. They were catching their proletariat in a net, and now they hold it fast.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Thinking, Cake

Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.13, TAN Books

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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 is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Opportunity, Men

Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Belloc: A Biographical Anthology”

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Hilaire Belloc

Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.708, Delphi Classics

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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 property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.

Hilaire Belloc

Philosophy, Independent, Community

Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.84, TAN Books

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Born: July 27, 1870
Died: July 16, 1953
Occupation: Writer
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