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> [There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/there-are-people-into-whose-heads-it-never-enters-to-conceive-of-any/)

[Henry George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-george/)

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## More by Henry George

> [No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/no-theory-is-too-false-no-fable-too-absurd-no-superstition-too/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/private-ownership-of-land-is-the-nether-mill-stone-material-progress/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/as-it-becomes-more-and-more-difficult-to-get-land-so-will-the-virtual/)

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> [In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/in-all-the-new-states-of-the-union-land-monopolization-has-gone-on-at/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/the-ideal-social-state-is-not-that-in-which-each-gets-an-equal-amount/)

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> [The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/the-state-it-cannot-too-often-be-repeated-does-nothing-and-can-give/)

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> [It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/it-is-not-from-top-to-bottom-that-societies-die-it-is-from-bottom-to/)

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> [That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/that-amid-our-highest-civilization-men-faint-and-die-with-want-is-not/)

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> [I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/i-do-not-think-that-any-sorrow-of-youth-or-manhood-equalled-in/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/what-protectionism-teaches-us-is-to-do-to-ourselves-in-time-of-peace/)

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> [It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/it-is-too-narrow-an-understanding-of-production-which-confines-it/)

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> [It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/it-is-not-the-business-of-government-to-make-men-virtuous-or/)

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> [Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/social-progress-makes-the-well-being-of-all-more-and-more-the/)

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> [Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/let-no-man-imagine-that-he-has-no-influence-whoever-he-may-be-and/)

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> [The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/the-value-of-a-thing-is-the-amount-of-laboring-or-work-that-its/)

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