Henry George

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.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

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

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

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

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

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

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

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

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

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.