21 ordspråk av Henry George Bohn
Henry George Bohn
 Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital. |
| Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions. |
| He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. |
| He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. |
| How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it |
| How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars? |
| How 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. |
| 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. |
| Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. |
| Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over |
| Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over |
| Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. |
| That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man |
| That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one. |
| The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion |
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