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Henry George
American
Economist
About the author
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Power
#Civilization
#Wealth
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#World
#Labor
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Children
#Clothes
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Harm
#Profit
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,
American
Economist
#Will
#Man
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Imagination
#March
#Invention
#Mankind
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Change
#Danger
#Blind
#Conservatism
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Man
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Truth
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Act
#Trade
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Right
#Country
#Man
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,
American
Economist
#Result
#Labor
#Production
#Force
How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
Henry George,
American
Economist
#Men
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,
American
Economist
#May
#Influence
#Man
#Power
#Light