Quotes Suitable for Framing: Hilaire Belloc

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We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid.

We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us: we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile. 

 

Hilaire Belloc

Barbarians from without are never to be feared so much as internal barbarians that civilizations give birth to.

 

 

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Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Wednesday, July 10, AD 2019 10:15am

But barbarians are authentic, and in a world where hypocrisy is the only vice, authenticity is the only virtue.

Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd
Thursday, July 11, AD 2019 3:24am

“Barbarians from without are never to be feared so much as internal barbarians that civilizations give birth to”.—H. Belloc

Thankfully they are easy to identify. They are called Democrats, and especially Catholic Democrats, and even more especially Catholic Democrats who are members of the clergy.

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