Hilaire Belloc Quotes about Politics

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The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram a rising of the rich against the poor.

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Rising, Politics

Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.85, TAN Books

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

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

Men, Care, Politics

Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.25, IHS Press

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

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

Hilaire Belloc

Wisdom, Credit, Politics

Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.34, IHS Press

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Hilaire Belloc

Politics, Economy, Century

Hilaire Belloc (1931). “Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556”

Hilaire Belloc Quotes about Politics

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