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.

Henry George
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  4. A man may beg, but a woman has to sell. - Victor Hugo

  5. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. - J.k. Rowling

More Quotes By Henry George
  1. Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

  2. Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

  3. There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

  4. The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.

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

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