"It is but a truism that labor is……" — Henry George
"It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over."
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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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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long…
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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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More Inefficient Quotes
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one of 94 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first…
— Annie Besant
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
— Edward de Bono
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Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient,…
— Kurt Cobain
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His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything…
— Nikola Tesla
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Many businesses with unpopular products or inefficient production find it much easier to curry the favor of a few influential…
— Charles Koch
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Gun laws are an attempt to nationalize the right of self-defense. Politicians perennially react to the police's abject failure to…
— James Bovard
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Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run…
— Richard Viguerie
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It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets…
— Christy Clark
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If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the…
— Bruce Barton
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need…
— John Ralston Saul
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No centralized government, no matter how big, how smart or how powerful, can effectively and efficiently control much of society…
— Charles Koch
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