Henry George Quotes


"Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over."
- Henry George
(Related: Labor, World)

"Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes."
- Henry George
(Related: Children, Clothes)

"That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one."
- Henry George
(Related: Harm, Profit)

"The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will."
- Henry George
(Related: Man, Will)

"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."
- Henry George
(Related: Imagination, Invention, Mankind, March)

"There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism."
- Henry George
(Related: Change, Blind, Conservatism, Danger)

"Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied."
- Henry George
(Related: Man)

"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it."
- Henry George
(Related: Truth)

"The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical."
- Henry George
(Related: Act, Trade)

"How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it."
- Henry George
(Related: Country, Man, Right)

"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."
- Henry George
(Related: Force, Labor, Production, Result)

"How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?"
- Henry George
(Related: Men)

"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."
- Henry George
(Related: Power, Influence, Light, Man, May)