Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
From Henry George
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
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.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
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