Henry George Quotes

American - Economist | September 2, 1839 - October 29, 1897

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

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

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Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

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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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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

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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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How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

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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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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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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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