How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime. Henry George More Quotes by Henry George More Quotes From Henry George For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong. Henry George honesty integrity character The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. Henry George often-is doe giving It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top. Henry George bottom dies 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. Henry George swimming two thinking 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. Henry George wealth states social 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. Henry George want men civilization Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions. Henry George progress fighting water There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists. Henry George states people I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead. Henry George propose conclusion may As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward. Henry George winning men philosophy Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge. Henry George prejudice trade war The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion Henry George political law men one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women . Henry George voice matter sex 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. Henry George wages land use In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest. Henry George california land evil Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a book, or a picture, he has a moral right to that particular wheelbarrow, or book, or picture, but no right to ask that others be prevented from making similar things. Such a prohibition, though given for the purpose of stimulating discovery and invention, really in the long run operates as a check upon them. Henry George running men book 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 being ground. Henry George progress land class Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. Henry George economic-inequality political philosophy That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right. Henry George endure wise justice As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not. Henry George nations individual produce
