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Letter "H" » Henry George Quotes
«He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.»
«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.»
«What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power»
Author: Henry George
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«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.»
Author: Henry George
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«Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over»
«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»
Author: Henry George
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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.»
Author: Henry George
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«There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.»
Author: Henry George
«Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.»
Author: Henry George
«Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.»
Author: Henry George
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