Occupation: Writer Birth: September 2, 1839 Death: October 29, 1897
one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to….
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will..
Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each..
Let no man imagine that he has no influence..
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough..
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratif….
Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice..
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their exist….
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government sh….
Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; ….
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism..
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power..
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism..
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over..
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied..
The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind….
The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, ….
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its o….
My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, tu….
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong..
The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - s….