Economic system Quote by George Monbiot

Greece has great strengths, but much of this potential has been wasted. That's because of a wider political system, but also because of a…

— George Papandreou

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

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

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

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

Socialism most always leads to a failure of democracy because the economic system ultimately cannot provide for its people.

— Trish Regan

“Humans, as a species, are constantly, and in every way, comparing themselves to one another, which, given the brief nature of their existence, seems…

— Donald Miller