Henry George Quotes (21 Quotes)

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.

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

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

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

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.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

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

He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a ' producer,' a ' working man,' a ' laborer,' and is honestly earning honest wages.

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

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Poverty is the open mouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

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.

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

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

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 diff

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

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

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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

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