“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.” IfsStatesWisdomPoliticsIndividualTermEconomyEconomicConditionsCitizensMassPropertyLiberalismOver ItServitudeEconomic Freedom Book:The Crisis Of Civilization Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.” MenKindWisdomTodayPoliticsEconomyConditionsEasierUniversalPropertyCreditLiberalismOwnersUnitsReductionEmissionsTransactionsLendingAbsorptionSmall Man Book:The Crisis Of Civilization Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.” NeedsWould BePoliticsEconomyConditionsTransformationPropertyComplicatedLiberalismCommunistCapitalistExtensionsRestorationLengthy Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was well distributed throughout the community, and thus the family rendered independent.” WellsPhilosophyAgePoliticsCommunityEconomyMiddleConditionsIndependentPropertyLiberalismMiddle Ages Book:The Crisis Of Civilization Source: The Crisis Of Civilization
“When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated.” MenStatesWisdomPoliticsCompanyStepsEconomyConditionsSecurityCitizensBenefitsMassSlaveryPropertySlaveLiberalismWagesSufficiencyCompulsoryEmployingDoctoring Author:Hilaire Belloc
“We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."” MayWisdomDesireOrderFightingPoliticsPoorEconomyRichConditionsBecomingOpponentsLiberalismInhuman Author:Hilaire Belloc
“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.” PoliticsEconomyConditionsCenturyCapitalismAspectUniversalLiberalismProtest Book:Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556 Source: Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1533-1556
