Henry George Quotes About Poverty

• Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

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  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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• That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

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  Civilization  

  Henry George (1886). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth [and] the Remedy”

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• 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.

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  Spring   Real   Past  

  "Progress and Poverty". Book by Henry George, 1879.

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• 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.

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  Children   Class  

  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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