Bottom Quote by Henry George Download Open image “It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.” — Henry George ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bottom Dies
No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself. — L.E. Modesitt Jr Copy Share Image
It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both. — John Hall Wheelock Copy Share Image
Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
From the weakest to the mightest, from the richest to the poorest, everyone eventually dies. — Michael Country Copy Share Image
When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
A society that doesn't know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die. — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
Most of the people who reach the top are the very same ones who started at the bottom. — Susan Gale Copy Share Image
On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are… — Henry George Copy Share Image
As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value… — Henry George Copy Share Image
In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. — Henry George Copy Share Image
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each. — Henry George Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not… — James Woods Copy Share Image
I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class… — Chris Lilley Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I plead with my Moonlight fans to give this show a chance if they let me give it a chance. I can’t do Moonlight… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
Well, the bottom line is that I'm extremely pleased with 'The Stupids.' I'm pleased that it's coming out, and it should look good. It's… — John Landis Copy Share Image
Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
I would have had a clause in my contract; I would've definitely put some fine print in my contract that said, "If the president… — Joe Budden Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be. — Dennis Rodman Copy Share Image
If I had lost the popular vote but won the electoral college and in my first day as president the intelligence community came to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The bottom line, in the professional level, no matter where you go, there's going to be competition. That's what it is. At the end… — Scott Tolzien Copy Share Image
