Henry George Quotes

Put all other sufferings on one side of the scale, and poverty on the other, and poverty would be heavier.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.

Poverty is unnecessary.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Haiti is in desperate poverty.

It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.

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.

Poverty is the parent of revolution.

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solution to large collective problems, because those problems [to the have’s] no longer seem very collective. Inequality undermines democracy/

Poverty is the root of all evil.

While we have created prosperity for many, too many are being left behind.

The miseries suffered by our people come more from the shameless exploitation of our countries.

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

The outrages of the powerful, the insolence of the rich, scorn of the proud, and malice of the uncharitable, all beating against the broken spirit of the unfortunate.

Complaint is poverty.

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.