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Best Quotes by Henry George (Top 10)
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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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What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
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The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.
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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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There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
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Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
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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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Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.
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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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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
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It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
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Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
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That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
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For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.
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The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
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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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