Henry George Quotes About Economy

• 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.

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  Henry George

  Wisdom   Men   Numbers  

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

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  Real   Luxury   Long  

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

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  Henry George

  Wisdom  

  Henry George (1912). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy”

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• The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

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  Henry George

  Men   Political  

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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