"That which is unjust can really profit no……" — Henry George
"That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one."
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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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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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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
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