Century Quote by Maria Nikiforova

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a…

— Mao Zedong

“If from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are in an advanced stage of improvement, we still…

— Ben Carson

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the…

— Thomas Paine

“The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A”

— Timothy Snyder

For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth and slaves,…

— Anonymous

“What is really desired, under the name of riches, is, essentially, power over men; in its simplest sense, the power of obtaining for own…

— John Ruskin

To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person knows, is…

— Pope Pius XI

“We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

— Ibn Khaldun

Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land...If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industrie quickly…

— John Smith

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on…

— Denis Kearney