"The fundamental principle of human action, the law,……" — Henry George
"The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion"
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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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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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