Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Henry GeorgeA good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
Henry GeorgeI do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.
Henry GeorgeHow vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
Henry George