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 More Quotes by Hilaire Belloc More Quotes From Hilaire Belloc 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 organization taken men And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me. Hilaire Belloc drink men boys When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. Hilaire Belloc reading funny death Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery. Hilaire Belloc slavery benefits wisdom 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 politics care men Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society. Hilaire Belloc ownership our-society character I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well. Hilaire Belloc associates wells priests Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight. But roaring Bill, who killed him, thought it right. Hilaire Belloc army fighting military When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England. Hilaire Belloc england lasts self But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we are now examining, the growth of Capitalism and its increasing proletariat, is the centralization of irresponsible control over the lives of men: the putting power over the proletariat into the hands of a few who can direct the loans of currency and credit without which that proletariat could not be fed and clothed and maintained in work. Hilaire Belloc wisdom men hands 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 advantage mankind men The sea drives truth into a man like salt. Hilaire Belloc sailing sea men I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. Hilaire Belloc writing book dull 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 being-alone loneliness men Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires. Hilaire Belloc lunch tea breakfast 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 issues men interesting Consider in what way the industrial system developed upon capitalist lines. Why were a few rich men put with such ease into possession of the new methods? Why was it normal and natural in their eyes and in that of contemporary society that those who produced the new wealth with the new machinery should be proletarian and dispossessed? Hilaire Belloc eye ease men 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 We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. Hilaire Belloc carpe-diem journey travel 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
