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Henry George

"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 should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve."

Source : Henry George, A. C. Auchmuty (1908). “Gems from Henry George: being memorable passages from the writings and addresses of the author of "Progress and poverty"”

Henry George

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“Nothing is quite as depressing as depression.”
“One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.”
“Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.”
“Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.”
“I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all â€” what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to stare at a blank page â€” do they want someone to write on it?”
“A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.”
“After my career is over, I want to have a dirt bike track at my house and ride.”
“The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.”

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