98 Quotes by Henry George

As no man made the land, so no man can claim a right of ownership in the land.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Material progress does not merely fail to relieve poverty, it actually produces it. This association of progress with poverty is the great enigma of our times. It is the riddle that the sphinx of fate puts to our civilization. And which NOT to answer is to be destroyed.

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.

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

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

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.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.