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Sozialphilosoph (USA, 1839 - 1897).

Henry George · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Henry George wäre heute 184 Jahre, 8 Monate, 16 Tage oder 67.464 Tage alt.

Geboren am 02.09.1839 in Philadelphia
Gestorben am 29.10.1897
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau

• Armut ist die weit aufklaffende Hölle, die unter der zivilisierten Gesellschaft gähnt.
  • Arbeit - Gesellschaft - Miteinander

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• Freiheit ist kein Privileg, das verliehen wird, sondern eine Gewohnheit, die erworben werden muß.

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• As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

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• 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 elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a producer, a working man, a laborer, and is honestly earning honest wages.

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• He who by any exertion of mind or body adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness - he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a producer, a workingman, a laborer, and is honestly earning honest wages.

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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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• Political economy is only the economy of human aggregates, and its laws are laws which we may individually recognize. What is required for their elucidation is not long arrays of statitstics nor the collocation of laboriously as certained facts, but that sort of clear thinking which, keeping in mind the distinction between the part and the whole, seeks the relations of familiar things, and which is as possbile for the unlearned as for the learned.

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• Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

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• Save possibly in education effects, cooperation can produce no general results that competition will not produce.

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• Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

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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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• The fundamental principle of human action . . . is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.

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• The law of society is, each for all, as well as all for each. No one can keep to himself to good he may do, any more than he can keep the bad.

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• The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

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• There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

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• Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

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