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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.
Henry George
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Henry George
Age: 58 †
Born: 1839
Born: September 2
Died: 1897
Died: October 29
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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 - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.
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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.
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That which is unjust can really profit no one that which is just can really harm no one.
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What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
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Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.
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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 solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women .
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