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Henry George Quotes


An American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land.
Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American writer, politician and political economist, who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax, also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the philosophy and economic ideology known as Georgism, which is that everyone owns what he or she creates, but that everything found in nature, most importantly land, belongs equally to all humanity. His most famous work is Progress and Poverty written during 1879; it is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrial economies and possible remedies.

Here are some famous quotes by Henry George. 

There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.

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

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

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The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.

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It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor the world over.

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That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature but to the injustice of man.

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The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

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For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.

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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.

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There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

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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 the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world and others no right.