HENRY GEORGE

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

A crank is a little thing that makes revolutions.

Where the conditions to which material progress everywhere tends are most fully realized, we find the deepest poverty .... Amid the greatest accumulations of wealth, men die of starvation, and puny infants suckle dry breasts.

Capital is a result of labor.

Capital is good; the capitalist is a helper if he is not also a monopolist. We can safely let any one get as rich as he can if he will not despoil others in doing so.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air—it is a right proclaimed by their very existence.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy.

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals.

Human labor is becoming the cheapest of commodities.

Our boasted freedom necessarily involves slavery, so long as we recognize private property in land. Until that is abolished, Declarations of Independence and Acts of Emancipation are in vain.

Poverty is an open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.

[Referring to Karl Marx:] ... the prince of muddleheads.

Short-sighted is the philosophy which counts on selfishness as the master motive of human action.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.