Economic system Quote by George Monbiot

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

— Vilfredo Pareto

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they…

— James Buchan

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do.…

— Aldous Huxley

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it…

— Anonymous

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

— Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common…

— Plutarch

We're not trying to take power away or rule anybody - we're just trying to get up from under the rulers.

— Muhammad Ali

“Laws were made to establish a gradation of ranks; but it was soon found that the soil of America was opposed to a territorial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Using political power, the elite can induce local authorities to facilitate enclosure and privatisation of land, water, and other hitherto public amenities. And they…

— Guy Standing

We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may…

— Wade Davis

There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel…

— Alexander Hamilton