Hilaire Belloc Quotes - Page 4

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• Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Military, Fighting, Army

  Sonnets and Verse (ed. 2, 1938) "The Pacifist"

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

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  Lying, Hands, Issues

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

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• It has unfortunately now become a habit for so many generations, that it has almost passed into an instinct throughout the Jewish body, to rely upon the weapon of secrecy. Secret societies, a language kept as far as possible secret, the use of false names in order to hide secret movements, secret relations between various parts of the Jewish body: all these and other forms of secrecy have become the national method.

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  Order, Names, Rely Upon

  Hilaire Belloc, Herbert Maurice Van Thal, Jane Soames Nickerson (1970). “Belloc: a biographical anthology”, Allen & Unwin Australia

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• How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing - yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up.

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  Real, Writing, People

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• 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 we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Doctors, Sick

  Hilaire Belloc (1954). “The Verse of Hilaire Belloc”

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• Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

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  Latin, Soul, Tea

  On Nothing (1908) "On Tea"

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• The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Mind

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.32, IHS Press

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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 is Property. The problem before us is, how to restore Property so that it shall be, as it was not so long ago, a general institution.

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  Long Ago, Restoration, Politics

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.26, IHS Press

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• The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

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  Men, Sea, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1912). “First and Last”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Character, Artist, Men

  Hilaire Belloc (1940). “Characters of the Reformation”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• I forget the name of the place; I forget the name of the girl; but the wine was Chambertin.

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  Girl, Food, Wine

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• Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy.

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  Courage, Heart, Grace

  Verses (1910) "Courtesy"

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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 commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.

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  Men, Issues, Interesting

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.101, TAN Books

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

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  Lying, Men, Moments

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

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• When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.

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  People, Mind, Tails

  Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896) "The Elephant"

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

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  Wise, Kings, Pigs

  Hilaire Belloc (1958). “Letters”

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• If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.

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  Writing, Way, Language

  Hilaire Belloc (1967). “On”

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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 registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency.

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  Wisdom, Responsibility, Men

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

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• An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

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  Running, Lasts, Fortnight

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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 coordinated form-that is, in combination, so that the average man's holding could be put to useful purpose in company with the holdings of a great number of other men of his own sort, the new evils would not have arisen.

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  Wisdom, Men, Average

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.103, TAN Books

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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 receive the wages they demand. They act as they have been trained to act by capitalist society, which denies the doctrine of the Just Price, which proclaims work to be an evil and the goal of human endeavor to be the avoidance of it; which puts it up as an ideal that individuals should get as much money as they possibly can out of their fellows by any means in their power.

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  Wisdom, Mean, Organization

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• You are my cat, and I am your human.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Cat, Humans

  Hilaire Belloc, Herbert Maurice Van Thal, Jane Soames Nickerson (1970). “Belloc: a biographical anthology”, Allen & Unwin Australia

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• [Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.

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  Self, Essentials, Denial

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• I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Book, Writing, Dull

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