Henry George

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient read more

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings,
goes but to build up great fortunes, to read more

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 contest between the House of Have and the House of
Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

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

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

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution read more

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.