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

Hilaire Belloc

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Hilaire Belloc
Age: 82 †
Born: 1870
Born: July 27
Died: 1953
Died: July 16
Historian
Journalist
Poet
Politician
Writer
La Celle-les-Bruyères
Hilaire Pierre Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc
Liberty
Libertarianism
Human
Libertarian
Humans
Socialism
Life
Production
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Capitalism
Wealth
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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
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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.
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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.
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I said to Heart, How goes it? Heart replied: Right as a Ribstone Pippin! But it lied.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.
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There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.
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Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.
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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.
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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
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Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
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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.
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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
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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.
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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.
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