"How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime……" — Henry George
"How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime."
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Henry George
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52 Quotes by Henry George
Henry George has 52 quotes on this site.
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the…
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That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.
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Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
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The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call…
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He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of…
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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the…
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of…
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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
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That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have…
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The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
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More Barbarous Quotes
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime…
— Albert Camus
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The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as…
— Amerigo Vespucci
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
— Winston Churchill
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The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am…
— Ruben Dario
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Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of…
— Rodrigue Tremblay
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Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached.
— William Shakespeare
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors…
— Charles Dudley Warner
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
— T.E. Lawrence
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In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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During my medical education at the University of Basle I found vivisection horrible, barbarous and above all unnecessary
— Carl Jung
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If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This…
— Nikola Tesla
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