George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950)

The greatest of evils and the worst of evils is poverty. I went quite casually one night into a hall in London, and I heard a man deliver a speech which changed the whole current of my life. That man was an American, Henry George. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. Whether it is the man or the earth I own, the bird or its food, it is essentially the same thing. As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.