I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin… — Henry George Copy Share Image
There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much. — 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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