“UNDER communism we should have all the worst spiritual
effects of industrial capitalism extended and emphasized because their tyranny
would be universal. . . . When you destroy the family and the sanctity of the
individual, when you make war on the tradition of human culture, you are making
war on the Image of God. And because you are making war in the Image of God,
which is Man, with his human dignity and free will, you find yourself at once
at war with God Himself. It is not an accident that communism should produce
wholesale massacre, arson, torture, and the destruction of all lovely things. A
perverse theory produces perverse acts. The story has been told over and over
again but it can never be told too often.”
~Hilaire Belloc: The Way Out
“THOSE who rely on communism as a remedy will be in a worse
case than if they had not tried any remedy at all, for communism must
necessarily break down, but not till it has done vast harm.”
