Henry George Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Henry George:
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
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How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
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Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
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There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
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He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
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Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
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How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
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The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
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That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
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