List of Henry George Quotes

Let No Man Imagine That He Has No Influence.

What Would Happen To The Individual If All The Functions Of The Body Were Placed Under The Control Of The Consciousness Is What Would Happen To A Nation In Which All Individual Activities Were Directed By Government.

God Showers Upon Us His Gifts-more Than Enough For All; But Like Swine Scrambling For Food, We Tread Them In The Mire, And Rend Each Other.

It Is As To Whether Its Services Or Uses Are To Be Exchanged Or Not Which Makes A Tool An Article Of Capital Or Merely An Article Of Wealth. Thus, The Lathe Of A Manufacturer Used In Making Things Which Are To Be Exchanged Is Capital, While The Lathe Kept By A Gentleman For His Own Amusement Is Not.

The Word Capital, As Philologists Trace It, Comes Down To Us From A Time When Wealth Was Estimated In Cattle, And A Man's Income Depended Upon The Number Of Head He Could Keep For Their Increase.

Social Progress Makes The Well-being Of All More And More The Business Of Each.

Man Must Be Doing Something, Or Fancy That He Is Doing Something, For In Him Throbs The Creative Impulse; The Mere Basker In The Sunshine Is Not A Natural, But An Abnormal Man.

A Good, Very Good, Not To Say Admirable Schoolmaster, But Then He Is Only A Schoolmaster.

It Is But A Truism That Labor Is Most Productive Where Its Wages Are Largest. Poorly Paid Labor Is Inefficient Labor, The World Over.

How Many Men Are There Who Fairly Earn A Million Dollars?

At The Beginning Of This Marvelous Era It Was Natural To Expect, And It Was Expected, That Laborsaving Inventions Would Lighten The Toil And Improve The Condition Of The Laborer; That The Enormous Increase In The Power Of Producing Wealth Would Make Real Poverty A Thing Of The Past... From Progress And Poverty, To Those Who, Seeing The Vice And Misery That Spring From The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Privilege, Feel The Possibility Of A Higher Social State And Would Strive For Its Attainment.

As Man Is So Constituted That It Is Utterly Impossible For Him To Attain Happiness Save By Seeking The Happiness Of Others, So Does It Seem To Be Of The Nature Of Things That Individuals And Classes Can Obtain Their Own Just Rights Only By Struggling For The Rights Of Others.