“[T]here must be human work before any article of wealth can be produced, and, in a natural state of things, the man who toiled honestly and well would be the rich man, and he who did not work would be poor. We have so reversed the order of nature that we are accustomed to think of a working man as a poor man.”
–Henry George, The Crime of Poverty
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Quoted in The Heretic’s Handbook of Quotations
Sharp and Pointed 