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Henry George Quotes about Children

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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]

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 George
Faith, Mother, Children

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Henry George
Children, Clothes, Progress
Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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.

Henry George
Children, Men, Class
Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

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