Henry George

“Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.”