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.
Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.
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Zeno Of Citium
The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.
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Frans De Waal
Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in...
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Ford Madox Ford
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been badly manhandled, but that it has moved forward.
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Victor Hugo
Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside, ” is a safe rule for those who would always retain the good opinion of that all-powerful, but somewhat unintelligent, incubus, “the average person, ” but...
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Jerome K. Jerome
More Quotes By Henry George
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
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.
There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.
The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.
