Henry George Quotes

• Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

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• What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

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• There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Birth:	2nd September, 1839
Death:	29th October, 1897
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Economist, Philosopher, Writer

About

Henry George was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American political economist, philosopher and writer. His immensely popular writing is credited with sparking several reform movements of the Progressive Era, and inspiring the broad economic philosophy known as Georgism, based on the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value derived from land should belong equally to all members of society. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty, sold millions of copies worldwide, probably more than any other American book before that time. He wrote other books include: Our land and land policy, The Irish Land Question, Social problems, The Crime of Poverty, Protection Or Free Trade, The science of political economy, The Life of Henry George, and A Perplexed Philosopher.

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