Occupation: Writer Birth: September 2, 1839 Death: October 29, 1897
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough..
Let no man imagine that he has no influence..
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..
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism..
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will..
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, ….
It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over..
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve ….
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 state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody..
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher….
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things….
Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or she will not stay. It is not enou….
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..
How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?.
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of trans….
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 contras….
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will subm….