"What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power."

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Source : Louis Freeland Post, Henry George (1899). “The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrated Notes of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated by Henry George”

Henry George

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“Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis getsâ€¦ any sound investment will eventually pay off.”
“The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.”
“But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place? And with no greater difficulty than the various arrangement of two dozen little signs upon paper? Let this be the seal of all the admirable inventions of man.”
“I'm for gay marriage. I've been married for 14 years. Marriage is not for everybody, it's not easy and divorce is there for a reason. If a gay person wants to get married, get married.”

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“I expect that would be a very different world with very different priorities.”
“Just because a relationship ends, it doesn't mean it's not worth having.”
“If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”
“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”

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