Henry George Quotes

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.

If, in a country, the wealth is concentrated in the hands of only the few, it cannot witness harmony and stability.

Riches run after the rich, and poverty runs after the poor.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

This country is very good at creating wealth, but not very good at distributing it.

High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Poverty is unnecessary.

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

There is no reason, in the capital city of the richest country in the world, for anybody to be hungry.

I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.

The issue of wealth inequality is ... the great moral issue of our time.

There is plenty of corn in Castile, but he who has none, starves.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Unequal wealth distribution is a risk factor for inequality that must be attacked by policies.

... the wrong and evils of the money-piling tendency of our country ... giving all power to the rich and bringing in pauperism.

…of all the causes of seditions and changes in the Republic, there is none greater than the excessive wealth of a few subjects, and the extreme poverty of the majority.

There’s a mal-distribution in wealth in this country. Entitlements end up going to the rich anyway. Some of them should be attacked. The ones who rip us off, the ones who get bailed out.

What does peace mean in a world in which the combined wealth of the world's 587 billionaires exceeds the combined gross domestic product of the world's 135 poorest countries?

The greatest issue before the people—the question of special privilege and unequal distribution of wealth.

Money doesn't just buy a nice car; it also buys better education or healthcare. Increasingly, it can buy impunity from justice, a pliant media, favorable laws, business advantage, and even elections. This, in turn, perpetuates the policies that allow a tiny elite to accumulate ever more wealth at the expense of the majority.

What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.