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How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
Topic: Country
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Desire
Source: Progress and Poverty (bk. II, ch. 3)
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What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Labor
Source: Progress and Poverty (bk. VII, ch. I)
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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.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Topic: Poverty
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Progress
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?
Topic: Progress
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.
Topic: Progress
Source: Progress and Poverty--Introductory--The Problem
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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.
Topic: Rights
Source: Progress and Poverty (bk. VII, ch. I)
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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.
Topic: Slavery
Source: Social Problems (ch. V)
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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.
Topic: Society
Source: Social Problems (ch. IX)
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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.
Topic: Wage
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Social Problems (ch. VI)
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Social Problems (ch. VI)
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