| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 24618 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry George (1839–1897), U.S. economist. Progress and Poverty, bk. 10, ch. 3 (1879). |
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