Henry George Quotes

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

  Enrique Jorge

  Civilization, Distribution Of Wealth, Prosperity

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• Sólo hay tres maneras por las que un individuo puede obtener riqueza: trabajando, regalando o robando. Y, evidentemente, la razón por la que los trabajadores obtienen tan poco es que los mendigos y los ladrones obtienen mucho.

  Enrique Jorge

  Money, Work, Way

  "Social Problems".

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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.

  Enrique Jorge

  Men, Air, Land

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

  Enrique Jorge

  Justice, Charity, Substitutes

  Henry George (2014). “The Crime of Poverty: Speeches and Articles”, p.152, epubli

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• There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

  Enrique Jorge

  Change, Growth, Blind

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• No es asunto del gobierno hacer a los hombres virtuosos o religiosos, o preservar al tonto de las consecuencias de su propia locura. El gobierno no debe ser represivo más allá de lo necesario para asegurar la libertad protegiendo la igualdad de derechos de cada uno frente a la agresión de los demás, y en el momento en que las prohibiciones gubernamentales se extienden más allá de esta línea corren el peligro de frustrar los mismos fines a los que pretenden servir.

  Enrique Jorge

  Religiosos, Hombres, Derechos

  Henry George, A. C. Auchmuty (1908). “Gems from Henry George: being memorable passages from the writings and addresses of the author of "Progress and poverty"”

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• What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

  Enrique Jorge

  War, Enemy, Tariffs

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• 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 of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living.

  Enrique Jorge

  Land, Use, Wages

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• The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive.It is the taking by the community for the use of the community of that value which is the creation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by nature be attained.

  Enrique Jorge

  Fall, Taken, Land

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

  Enrique Jorge

  Often Is, Giving, Doe

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• Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

  Enrique Jorge

  Party, Ideas, Progress

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Enrique Jorge

  Filosofía, Hombre, Animal

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Enrique Jorge

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

  Henry George (1884). “Social Problems”

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• To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be.

  Enrique Jorge

  Simple, Government, Organization

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.171, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

  Enrique Jorge

  Entrepreneur, Possession, Amount

  Henry George (1911). “The Complete Works of Henry George”

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• The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

  Enrique Jorge

  Slave Owners, Special, Aristocracy

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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

  Enrique Jorge

  Truth, Asking

  Henry George (1973). “The Land Question: What it Involves, and how Alone it Can be Settled”, New York : AMS Press

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

  Enrique Jorge

  País, Hombres, Plazas

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• La propiedad de la tierra es tan indefendible como la propiedad del hombre.

  Enrique Jorge

  Men, Land, Property

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.326, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

  Enrique Jorge

  People, States

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.328, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.

  Enrique Jorge

  Men, Tolerance, Slavery

  Henry George (2014). “The Crime of Poverty: Speeches and Articles”, p.143, epubli

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• El estado social ideal no es aquel en el que cada uno obtiene una cantidad igual de riqueza, sino en el que cada uno obtiene en proporción a su contribución al acervo general.

  Enrique Jorge

  Wealth, Social, States

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.57, Cosimo, Inc.

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• La mano de obra mal pagada es mano de obra ineficiente, en todo el mundo.

  Enrique Jorge

  Philosophy, Economic Inequality, Political

  Henry George (1911). “The complete works of Henry George”

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• Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or she will not stay. It is not enough that men should vote; it is not enough that they should be theoretically equal before the law. They must have liberty to avail themselves of the opportunities and means of life; they must stand on equal terms with reference to the bounty of Nature.

  Enrique Jorge

  Mean, Opportunity, Men

  Henry George (2014). “The Crime of Poverty: Speeches and Articles”, p.111, epubli

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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.

  Enrique Jorge

  Used, Results, Force

  Henry George (1916). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy”

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