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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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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.

Hilaire Belloc

Lying, Hands, Issues

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

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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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Economic freedom is in our eyes a good. It is among the highest of temporal goods because it is necessary to the highest life of society through the dignity of man and through the multiplicity of his action, in which multiplicity is life. Through well-divided property alone can the units of society react upon the State. Through it alone can a public opinion flourish. Only where the bulk of the cells are healthy can the whole organism thrive.

Hilaire Belloc

Eye, Men, Cells

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

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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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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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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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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 whole art of the political speech is to put 'nothing' into it. It is much more difficult than it sounds.

Hilaire Belloc

Art, Political, Sound

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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.

Hilaire Belloc

Real, Writing, People

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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.

Hilaire Belloc

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

Hilaire Belloc

Running, Lasts, Fortnight

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The sea drives truth into a man like salt.

Hilaire Belloc

Men, Sea, Sailing

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

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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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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.

Hilaire Belloc

Long Ago, Restoration, Politics

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

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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.

Hilaire Belloc

Writing, Way, Language

Hilaire Belloc (1967). “On”

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I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing.

Hilaire Belloc

Long, Paper, Lines

Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.795, Delphi Classics

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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.

Hilaire Belloc

Self, Essentials, Denial

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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.

Hilaire Belloc

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.

Hilaire Belloc

Men, Issues, Interesting

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

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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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There is no one who has cooked but has discovered that each particular dish depends for its rightness upon some little point which he is never told. It is not only so of cooking: it is so of splicing a rope; of painting a surface of wood; of mixing mortar; of almost anything you like to name among the immemorial human arts.

Hilaire Belloc

Art, Names, Cooking

Hilaire Belloc (1955). “One thing and another”

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The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

Hilaire Belloc

Men, Llamas, Expression

More Beasts for Worse Children (1897) "The Llama"

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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.

Hilaire Belloc

People, Mind, Tails

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

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