Top 100 Quotes About Henry George
#1. Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.
Albert Einstein
#2. I might have remembered what my father once wrote to Henry George, I never do anything by halves, and am half hearted in no cause that I embrace.
Cecil B. DeMille
#3. I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#5. Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.
George Henry Borrow
#7. He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George
#9. A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.
George Henry Lewes
#10. The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.
George Henry Lewes
#11. Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#13. Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace
the many inquiries
the fond regrets and thrilling hopes
it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.
George Henry Lewes
#15. Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Henry George
#16. Friends are like fiddle strings; they must not be screwed too tight.
Henry George Bohn
#17. George Zimmerman is a foot soldier in a rapidly privatizing country. He is a new centurion of 21st-century America. Law enforcement is tied down by the strictures of, well, the law. There is only 'so much they can do' to take care of the 'problem.'
Henry Rollins
#20. The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency towards the impersonation of abstractions which is visible throughout History.
George Henry Lewes
#21. Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Henry George Bohn
#22. Sherry ... a silly, sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers, and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.
George Henry Borrow
#23. Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
George Henry Lewes
#24. 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.
Henry George
#25. Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions
these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term experience.
George Henry Lewes
#26. The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#27. Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.
Henry George Bohn
#28. The people must think because the people alone can act.
Henry George
#29. Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
George Henry Lewes
#30. There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.
Henry George
#31. Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?
George Will
#34. The air is crowded with birds
beautiful, tender, intelligent birds
to whom life is a song.
George Henry Lewes
#35. A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
Henry George
#36. 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.
Henry George
#37. How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
Henry George
#38. It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.
George Henry Lewes
#39. Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.
Henry George
#40. In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
George Henry Lewes
#41. It will often be a question when a man is or is not wise in advancing unpalatable opinions, or in preaching heresies; but it can never be a question that a man should be silent if unprepared to speak the truth as he conceives it.
George Henry Lewes
#43. The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
George Henry Lewes
#45. Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
George Henry Lewes
#46. Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting
George Hamilton
#47. The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.
Henry George
#48. Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
George Henry Lewes
#49. Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
George Henry Lewes
#50. Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#51. The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
George Henry Borrow
#52. What would happen to the individual if all the functions of the body were placed under the control of the consciousness is what would happen to a nation in which all individual activities were directed by government.
Henry George
#53. What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George
#54. To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.
George Henry Lewes
#55. There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George
#56. Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility.
George Henry Lewes
#57. Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
Henry George
#58. The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
George Henry Lewes
#61. The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
Henry George
#62. Fold him in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?
George Henry Boker
#63. Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
George Henry Lewes
#64. The spelling of 'Wrenne' was a very common form of the family name, and it seems very likely that John Wrenne belonged to this family, who were much connected with S. George's, Windsor. OLD FAMILY MOTTO. William Wren was in Henry VIII.'s time the head of the family;
Lucy Phillimore
#65. I don't recognize myself in the players I see today. There's only one who excites me, and that is Thierry Henry. He's not just a great footballer, he's a showman, an entertainer.
George Best
#67. If a work of art is placed before me, I believe I can enjoy it; but I do not overlook the fact, that Art is one thing, another thing Amusement; and that people do like amusements, and will run after it.
George Henry Lewes
#68. How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
Henry George
#69. God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.
Henry George
#70. No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic
George Henry Lewes
#73. Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.
George Henry Lewes
#74. If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
Henry George
#75. Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.
Norton Juster
#77. Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
George Henry Lewes
#78. That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Henry George
#79. In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.
George Henry Lewes
#80. If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
George Henry Borrow
#81. As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others.
Henry George
#82. Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
Henry George
#83. Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.
Henry George
#84. There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
George Henry Lewes
#85. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
Malcolm X
#86. 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.
Henry George
#88. Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.
Henry George
#89. No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
George Henry Lewes
#90. There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth-by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reasons why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.
Henry George
#91. On paper curiously shaped
Scribblers to-day of every sort,
In verses Valentines ycled'd
To Venus chime their annual court.
I too will swell the motley throng,
And greet the all auspicious day,
Whose privilege permits my song
My love this secret to convey.
Henry George Bohn
#92. What's the use of worrying?
It never was worth while,
So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag,
And smile, smile, smile.
George Henry Powell
#93. Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Henry George
#94. The prosperity of a book lies in the minds of readers. Public knowledge and public taste fluctuate; and there come times when works which were once capable of instructing and delighting thousands lose their power, and works, before neglected, emerge into renown.
George Henry Lewes
#95. Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine.
George Bernard Shaw
#97. How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
Henry George
#98. Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.
George Henry Lewes
#99. Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#100. It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.
George Henry Lewes
