It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless and unreasoned, will be obeyed if it be sufficiently repeated.

Hilaire Belloc

Mots clés education economics



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The accursed power which stands on privilege( and goes with women, champagne and bridge)
Broke - and democracy resumed her reign ( which goes with bridge and women and champagne.

Hilaire Belloc


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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

Mots clés travel



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No, she laughed." 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

Mots clés writing humour on-people-in-books



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Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, there’s always laughter and good red wine.

Hilaire Belloc


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Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Hilaire Belloc

Mots clés humor technology force gun firepower might_makes_right



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The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Hilaire Belloc

Mots clés catholicism catholic catholic-church



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A strong Protectionist, believes
In everything but Heaven.
For entertainment, dines, receives,
Unmarried, 57.

Hilaire Belloc


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

Hilaire Belloc

Mots clés communism



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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


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