Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers…

We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to…

— Shirley Sherrod

Men no longer love the soil. Landowners sell it, lease it, divide it into shares, prostitute it, bargain with it and treat it as…

— Tashunka Witko

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

We have a wider political and economic system in which ancient, landed power still carries immense weight. There is nothing some landowners would like…

— George Monbiot

Brexit, for all its likely harms, represents an opportunity to pay landowners and tenants to do something completely different, rather than spending yet more…

— George Monbiot

“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

While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from landowners.

— Anonymous

Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today.…

— Paul Kingsnorth

“a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants.”

— Bob

“Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.”

— David Marusek

Democratic socialism means, that in a democratic, civilized society, the wealthiest people and the largest corporations must pay their fair share of taxes.

— Bernie Sanders

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

— John Paul Stevens

“Science lacks something very important that religion provides: a moral code. Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is a cruel…

— A.G. Riddle

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

— Walter Gropius

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon