Brexit Quote by George Monbiot

The impact of Brexit is likely to be slow and incremental, hardly the sudden transformation that some Leave voters wanted. Immigrants will not disappear,…

— Anne Applebaum

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

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

“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.”

— David Marusek

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

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

“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

I could see the point of Brexit if it meant returning power to the people.

— George Monbiot

The argument that won the Brexit campaign is the one that said take back control... which is another way of saying we want to…

— Frans Timmermans