"Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through……" — Henry George
"Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges."
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Henry George
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52 Quotes by Henry George
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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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