Henry George Quotes About Philosophy

• My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both.

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  Henry George (2014). “A Perplexed Philosopher: Being an Examination of Mr. Herbert Spencer's Various Utterances on the Land Question, with Some Incidental Reference to His Synthetic Philosophy”, p.6, epubli

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

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  Philosophy   Political   Unjust  

  Henry George (1973). “The Land Question: What it Involves, and how Alone it Can be Settled”, New York : AMS Press

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• Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

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  Philosophy   Men   Animal  

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

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

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  Philosophy   Organization   Political  

  Henry George (1911). “perplexed philosopher [Herbert Spencer”

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

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  Philosophy   Imagination   Political  

  Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

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• As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.

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  Philosophy   Men  

  Henry George (1898). “Social Problems”

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• Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

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  Philosophy   Economic Inequality   Political  

  Henry George (1911). “The complete works of Henry George”

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