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Henry George Quote: “It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.”

51. “It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “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.”

52. “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.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit.”

53. “We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.”

54. “I ask no one who may read this book to accept my views. I ask him to think for himself.”

— Henry George

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

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

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.”

56. “It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.”

57. “There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.”

58. “There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.”

59. “How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.”

— Henry George

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

60. “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

Henry George Quote: “Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.”

61. “Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.”

62. “Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “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.”

63. “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.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.”

64. “The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.”

65. “The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “The amount of wealth produced is nowhere commensurate with the desire for wealth, and desire mounts with every additional opportunity for gratification.”

66. “The amount of wealth produced is nowhere commensurate with the desire for wealth, and desire mounts with every additional opportunity for gratification.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “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.”

67. “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.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.”

68. “For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.”

69. “That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.”

70. “A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “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.”

71. “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.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.”

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

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “If each laborer in performing the labor really creates the fund from which his wages are drawn, then wages cannot be diminished by the increase of laborers, but, on the contrary, as the efficiency of labor manifestly increases with the number of laborers, the more laborers, other things being equal, the higher should wages be.”

73. “If each laborer in performing the labor really creates the fund from which his wages are drawn, then wages cannot be diminished by the increase of laborers, but, on the contrary, as the efficiency of labor manifestly increases with the number of laborers, the more laborers, other things being equal, the higher should wages be.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “All I wish to make clear is that, without any increase in population, the progress of invention constantly tends to give a larger proportion of the produce to the owners of land, and a smaller and smaller proportion to labor and capital.”

74. “All I wish to make clear is that, without any increase in population, the progress of invention constantly tends to give a larger proportion of the produce to the owners of land, and a smaller and smaller proportion to labor and capital.”

— Henry George

Henry George Quote: “Hitherto, it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill.”

75. “Hitherto, it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill.”

— Henry George

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