Henry George Quotes

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

Power, Wealth, Destroyed

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

Men, Million, Dollars

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George

Truth, Him, Against

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Henry George

Harm, Profit, Unjust

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

Change, Blind, Danger

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

Whose, Animal, Satisfied

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.
Henry George

Used, Result, Labor

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
Henry George

Country, Said, Inch

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.
Henry George

Power, May, Light

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Henry George

Labor, Paid, Poorly

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Henry George

Children, Clothes, Societies

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Henry George

Him, Call, Master

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Henry George

Mankind, Century, March

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

Alone, Act, Union

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: September 2, 1839

Died: October 29, 1897

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