Family Quote by Tarek Osman

“Some of the key pillars of Nasser's project proved greatly lacking. The public sector evolved into a Soviet-style system of sterile thinking, a deathbed…

— Tarek Osman

“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

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

— Timothy Snyder

“The speed of these social changes outpaced the development of Egyptian society and the people. Land reform and asset nationalization resulted in a far…

— Tarek Osman

The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all…

— Lysander Spooner

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on…

— Anonymous

“But you must be sure of what you want the land for. And as for your tenants, if they don't own the land, don't…

— F. Sionil José

Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.

— Lord Acton

The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and…

— Grover Cleveland

“farmhouses and shacks, the families settling”

— Colson Whitehead

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

“Farmers were given a plot of land in exchange for overthrowing their leaders. Violence was an indispensable feature of land distribution, implicating a majority…

— Frank Dikötter