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 submit themselves to torture and to death, mothers will immolate [burn] their children at the bidding of beliefs they thus accept.
Henry GeorgeThat which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Henry GeorgeWhence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.
Henry GeorgeThe state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.
Henry George