Land Privatization Quotes

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.

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth for the land is our mother… How can one man say it belongs only to him?

Prejudices of Political Economists against the Common Ownership in Land

In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

We do not ever want our land policy to be shaped so as to create a big class of proprietors who rent to others..

The distribution of land determines the distribution of power.

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.