Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc foi um escritor britânico.
É reconhecido por, juntamente com os outros católicos , haver previsto o sistema sócio-económico do distributismo.
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“O controle da produção da riqueza é o controle da própria existência humana.”
to control the production of wealth is to control human life itself.
"The Servile State" - página 11, de Belloc Hilaire, Editora Biblio Bazaar, LLC, 2007, ISBN 1110777000, 9781110777006, 202 páginas
For there is not a man living who knows better than I that the four charms of a cat lie in its closed eyes, its long and lovely hair, its silence and even its affected love.
"A conversation with a cat, and others" - Página 3, Hilaire Belloc - Harper & brothers, 1931 - 227 páginas
Fonte: Economics for Helen (1924), Ch. 1 : What is Wealth?
“Oh! let us never, never doubt
What nobody is sure about!”
"The Microbe"
More Beasts for Worse Children (1897)
"Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut off in Dreadful Agonies"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)
"On Tea", On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1908)
“[P]rofessional politics is a trade in which the sly outweigh the wise.”
Fonte: The Cruise of the 'Nona (1925), p. 116
"The Tiger"
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)
caption to the frontispiece, p. ii
The Path to Rome (1902)
“[A]lways keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse”
"Jim, Who Ran Away From His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)
"Matilda, Who Told Lies, and Was Burned to Death"
Cautionary Tales for Children (1907)
“Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.”
IV. On Making an Omelette
A Conversation with a Cat, and Others (1931)
"Dedicatory Ode", stanzas 31–32
Verses (1910)
Fonte: The Four Men: A Farrago (1911), p. 27
Fonte: Economics for Helen (1924), Ch. 1 : What is Wealth?
"Epitaph on the Politician Himself"
Hilaire Belloc (1925)
Fonte: The Cruise of the 'Nona (1925), pp. 248–9
Fonte: The Cruise of the 'Nona (1925), p. 177
"The Hippopotamus"
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)
drinking song, p. 126
The Four Men: A Farrago (1911)
“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”
Letter to G.K. Chesterton (12 December 1917), quoted in Robert Speaight, The Life of Hilaire Belloc (London: Hollis & Carter, 1957), p. 355
Fonte: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. III Survivals (iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument
“How slow the Shadow creeps: but when 'tis past,
How fast the Shadows fall. How fast! How fast!”
"On the Same" (On a Sundial II)
Sonnets and Verse (1938)
"Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child"
Verses (1910)
Fonte: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. III Survivals (iii) The "Wealth and Power" Argument
"The Big Baboon"
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (1896)
Fonte: Survivals and New Arrivals (1929), Ch. IV The Main Opposition (ii) Anti-Clericalism
"On Statistics"
The Silence of the Sea (1940)