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List of Henry George Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 82 inspiring quotes by Henry George.

About Henry George

  • Born: September 2, 1839
  • Died: October 29, 1897
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Let no man imagine that he has no influence.
    Men Influence Imagine
    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.
    Government Body Consciousness
    God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; but like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.
    Human Nature Enough Swine
    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.
    Gentleman Tools Use
    The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.
    Wisdom Men Numbers
    Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.
    Business Progress Social
    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.
    Sunshine Men Creative
    A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
    Very Good Admirable
    It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
    Business Wages World
    How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
    Men Dollars Million Dollars
    At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... from progress and poverty, to those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.
    Spring Real Past
    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.
    Struggle Men Rights
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