The expropriation of land without compensation should be…

The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

We are determined that expropriation without compensation should be implemented in a way that increases agricultural production, improves food security, and ensure that land…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

“The history of China’s “land reform” was written in the tears and blood of landowners like my great-grandfather. But the 300 million poor Chinese…

— Helen Raleigh

“it was Marx who declared that the whole idea of Communism could be summed up in a single formula—the abolition of private property; that…

— Leszek Kołakowski

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in…

— Karl Marx

We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border…

— Theodor Herzl

The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

“The combination of the land-reform programme and the creation of the public sector resulted in around 75 per cent of Egypt's gross domestic product…

— Tarek Osman

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

— Murray Rothbard

“Some of the key pillars of Nasser's project proved greatly lacking. The public sector evolved into a Soviet-style system of sterile thinking, a deathbed…

— Tarek Osman

To think that land reform is going to somehow automatically create an equitable system, I think that's just wrong. It's a very technical view…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Now you're being sentimental, Marija. You shouldn't waste your pity on machines! If you want to pity someone, pity the poor guestworker who's chucked…

— Chris Beckett

“Land reform was enacted through enforcing a 100-acre ceiling on the size of any single family's holding; ending absentee ownership; capping rent on leased…

— Tarek Osman

“The speed of these social changes outpaced the development of Egyptian society and the people. Land reform and asset nationalization resulted in a far…

— Tarek Osman

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial…

— Robert Mugabe