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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. -- Karl Marx
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising -- John Stuart Mill
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title. -- John Stuart Mill
The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated. -- Richard Cobden
Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords. -- Nydia Velazquez
For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords. -- Nydia Velazquez
Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and landlords. Now, thanks to social media, it's all gone sideways. -- Susan Orlean
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties. -- John Turner
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. -- Emily Greene Balch
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. -- Adam Smith
If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes. -- David Ricardo
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords. -- James Fenton
The cottages erected by farmers or by landlords are now, one and all, fit and proper habitations for human beings; and I verifly believe it would be impossible throughout the length and breadth of Wiltshire to find a single bad cottage on any large estate, so well and so thoroughly have the landed proprietors done their work. -- Richard Jefferies
The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody. -- Henry Ford
This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns. -- James Connolly
How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter? -- John Brunner

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