Quotes by Henry George
“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.”— Henry George
“What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.”— Henry George
“So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes... progress is not real and cannot be permanent.”— Henry George
“Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.”— Henry George
“The fundamental principle of human action... is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.”— Henry George
“Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be... the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.”— Henry George
“Poverty is the open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.”— Henry George
“The ownership of land is the great fundamental fact which ultimately determines the social, the political, and consequently the intellectual and moral condition of a people.”— Henry George
“For the ownership of the land on which and from which a man must live is virtually the ownership of the man himself.”— Henry George
“The truth that I have tried to make clear will not find easy acceptance. If that could be, it would have been accepted long ago.”— Henry George