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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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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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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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Slowly but certainly the proletarian, by every political reform which secures his well-being under new rules of insurance, of State control in education, of State medicine and the rest, is developing into the slave, leaving the rich man apart and free. All industrial civilization is clearly moving towards the re-establishment of the Servile State.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Moving, Men

Hilaire Belloc (2009). “Essays of a Catholic”, p.167, TAN Books

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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

Life, Travel, Journey

Hilaire Belloc (1942). “Places”

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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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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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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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Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Hilaire Belloc

Life, Death, Fall

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

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

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Men, Healthy, Conflict

"The Silence of the Sea". Book by Hilaire Belloc, 1940.

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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 communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Principles, Labels

Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.116, TAN Books

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And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me.

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Boys, Men, Drink

Hilaire Belloc (1951). “Hilaire Belloc: an anthology of his prose and verse”

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If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Hilaire Belloc

Slavery, Institutions, Thirds

Hilaire Belloc (1913). “The Servile State”

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Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

Hilaire Belloc

Disease, Physicians, Fame

Cautionary Tales (1907) "Henry King"

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When the mass of men are dispossessed - own nothing - they become wholly dependent upon the owners; and when those owners are in active competition to lower the cost of production the mass of men whom they exploit not only lack the power to order their own lives, but suffer from want and insecurity as well.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Men, Order

Hilaire Belloc (2017). “The Great Heresies”, p.110, Ignatius Press

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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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Even if the wealth and power be well distributed throughout a community, its members will not be happy unless they are inwardly so, and obviously where the distribution is bad, where the few have a vast superfluity and the many are consumed by anxiety or want, or where a few controllers can exercise their will over the many, society has failed, even though its total wealth and power be increased.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Exercise, Community

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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.

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Economic, Destroying, States

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I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

Hilaire Belloc

Priests, Wells, Associates

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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 - and the right of contract, which is one of the main functions of economic freedom. Therefore, even under Capitalism, so long as the old principles were remembered it was possible to recall the principles whereby Society had once been sane and well ordered.

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Rights, Long, Principles

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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 of the men who chiefly prosper under it; another for its mere confusion and noise; another for its false values; it was until recently most fiercely attacked for its impoverishment of the workers, its margin of unemployment and the rest - indeed so fiercely that it was compelled to seek palliatives for the evil. With a mass of men it was attacked from a vague but strong sense of injustice; it allowed a few rich to exploit mankind.

Hilaire Belloc

Strong, Men, Evil

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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 possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Citizens, Politics

Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.110, 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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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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Born: July 27, 1870
Died: July 16, 1953
Occupation: Writer
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