Land Quote by Henry George Download Open image “Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.” — Henry George ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Land Men Property
[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish… — Massasoit Copy Share Image
There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land, like Odysseus'… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top. — 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
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would… — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image
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