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Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground. -- Henry George
I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another. -- Bertrand Russell
It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. -- William Graham Sumner
If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another. -- Malcolm Wallop
I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy. -- Jessica Mitford
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. -- Neil Abercrombie
Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land. -- Wole Soyinka
Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership. -- Jakaya Kikwete
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesnt get trashed. -- John C. Malone
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed. -- John C. Malone
Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership. -- Joseph Stalin

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