Henry George Quotes About Progress

• Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

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  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.358, 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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  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.

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  Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.254, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Henry George (1898). “Social Problems”

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• Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

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  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

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  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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

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• Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

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  Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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