The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a… — Henry George Copy Share Image
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and… — Henry George Copy Share Image
How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children… — Henry George Copy Share Image
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work… — Henry George Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. — Henry George Copy Share Image
As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air… — Henry George Copy Share Image
As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are… — Henry George Copy Share Image
As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value… — Henry George Copy Share Image
In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top. — Henry George Copy Share Image
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own… — Henry George Copy Share Image
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