We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide. Hilaire Belloc More Quotes by Hilaire Belloc More Quotes From Hilaire Belloc 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 cooking names art The tender Evenlode that makes Her meadows hush to hear the sound Of waters mingling in the brakes, And binds my heart to English ground. A lovely river, all alone, She lingers in the hills and holds A hundred little towns of stone, Forgotten in the western wolds. Hilaire Belloc heart rivers water Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. Hilaire Belloc maxims whatever-happens gun Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized proletariat for sustenance without relation to the product of its labor; a demand which threatens the very existence of PROFIT (on the necessary presumption of which Capitalism reposes). The second, and immediately graver danger is that of a revolt for the confiscation of the means of production. Hilaire Belloc wisdom two mean 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. Hilaire Belloc wisdom average men When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'. Hilaire Belloc There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known. Hilaire Belloc everything shame ignorance mind The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. Hilaire Belloc cannot small him you The pilgrim is humble and devout, and human, and charitable, and ready to smile and admire; therefore, he should comprehend the whole of his way, the people in it, and the hills and the clouds, and the habits of the various cities. Hilaire Belloc smile humble clouds people
