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Henry George Quotes
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Economist Quotes
Category:
American Economist Quotes
Date of Birth:
September 2, 1839
Date of Death:
October 29, 1897
Nationality:
American
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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.
Henry George

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

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

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

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

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

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

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Henry George

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

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

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

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

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

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



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