Hilaire Belloc Quotes

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• The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Catholic, Church, Divinity

  "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.

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• Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination of Europeans - still nominally Christian - and reappear as the prime enemy of our civilization? The future always comes as a surprise, but political wisdom consists in attempting at least some partial judgment of what that surprise may be. And for my part I cannot but believe that a main unexpected thing of the future is the return of Islam.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Christian, Believe, Civilization

  Hilaire Belloc (2017). “The Great Heresies”, p.95, Ignatius Press

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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 the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Steps

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• It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Suggestions, Population, Dull

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.35, IHS Press

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• The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Church, Defeated

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• Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

  Hilaire Belloc

  Laughter, Wine, Shining

  Hilaire Belloc, “The Catholic Sun”

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• When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Catholic, Church, Remember

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• The propaganda of Communism throughout the world, in organization and direction is in the hands of Jewish agents. As for anyone who does not know that the Bolshevist movement in Russia is Jewish, I can only say that he must be a man who is taken in by the suppression of our deplorable press.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Taken, Men, Organization

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• Here richly, with ridiculous display,
  The Politician's corpse was laid away.
  While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
  I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Ridiculous, Politician, Acquaintance

  Hilaire Belloc (1970). “Complete verse [of] H. Belloc: including Sonnets and verse, Cautionary verses, The modern traveller, etc”

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• The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Liberty, Libertarian, Wealth

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• Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Liberty, Comfort, Increase

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• Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Memories, Reality, Collective Memory

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• Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Religious, Common, Language

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• It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Song, Singing, Second Best

  On Everything (1909) "On Song"

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• When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Funny, Death, Reading

  "On His Books" l. 1 (1923)

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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 order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Fighting, Order

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• Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Interesting, Boring, Made

  Hilaire Belloc (1938). “Stories, essays, and poems”

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• Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Assessment, Statistics, Judgment

  The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 171)

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• I am a Catholic. As far as possible, I go to Mass every day. This is a rosary. As far as possible, I kneel down and tell these beads every day. If you reject me on account of my religion, I shall thank God that He has spared me the indignity of being your representative.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Catholic, Thank God, Rosary

  "The Life of Hilaire Belloc". Book by Robert Speaight, 1957.

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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 the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Political, World

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.102, TAN Books

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• The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Gentleman, Language

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• The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Self, Abuse, Bed

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• Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

  Hilaire Belloc

  Writing, Army, Blow

  Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.1447, Delphi Classics

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• These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Advantage, Mankind

  Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.2675, Delphi Classics

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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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