Land Quote by Maaza Mengiste Download Open image “The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.” — Maaza Mengiste ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Land Money Rich Thinking
No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it... Do not misunderstand me, but understand me… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to… — Will Rogers Copy Share
You need to understand this. We did not think we owned the land. The land was part of us. We didn't even know about… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
The vast majority of the rich in this country did not inherit their wealth; they earned it. They are the country's achievers, producers, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A government of fighters won't know how to lead, only create more war. You think bravery is measured in resistance. — Maaza Mengiste Copy Share Image
“All was normal, Hailu knew without looking, he could understand the body's silent language without the help of machinery. Years of practice had taught… — Maaza Mengiste Copy Share Image
“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?” — Maaza Mengiste Copy Share Image
When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy? — Maaza Mengiste Copy Share Image
Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Whenever I was flying commercial, I would land in Chicago, and they would announce, 'Get your passports out.' It happened so often, I would… — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. — Hamid Karzai Copy Share Image