15 Famous Quotes by Henry George
9/2/1839 - 10/29/1897
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About Henry George
Henry George was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, whose main tenet is that people should own what they create, but that everything found in nature, most importantly the value of land, belongs equally to all humanity. His most famous work, Progress and Poverty, is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy.
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.
Rights
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Progress and Poverty (bk. VII, ch. I)
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Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Poverty
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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 contest between the House of Have and the House of
Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Progress
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Progress and Poverty--Introductory--The Problem
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train.
Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty
miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
Progress
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Progress and Poverty--Introductory--The Problem
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.
Progress
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Progress and Poverty--Introductory--The Problem
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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.
Labor
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Progress and Poverty (bk. VII, ch. I)
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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.
Wealth
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Social Problems (ch. VI)
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
Wealth
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Social Problems (ch. VI)
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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.
Slavery
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Social Problems (ch. V)
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Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the
plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
Desire
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Progress and Poverty (bk. II, ch. 3)
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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.
Society
Quotes, by Henry George , Source: Social Problems (ch. IX)
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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.
Politics / government
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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.
Wage
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