„For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.“
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„Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure. The people, so-called, do exercise an occasional choice among those who Marx once called "the rival factions and adventurers of the ruling class."“
— Noam Chomsky american linguist, philosopher and activist 1928
p. 146.
„… now, the new class of landlords — they may not be landlords but practically they are — and therefore a new class of people have come up, powerful politically and socially, and it has become very difficult to implement any land reforms today, because of that.“
— K. R. Narayanan 9th Vice President and the 10th President of India 1920 - 2005
„The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.“
— Maria Nikiforova Revolutionary, anarchist 1885 - 1919
In discussion with Ivan Matveyev, insisting on the redistribution of property from the wealthy to the poor.
„Democracy and slavery are inseparable. Why. Democracy as it existed among the ancients was no more than government by a number of men large enough to be called the people. But this designation is false. The true people, in such a state, the greatest number, the majority belong to the class of slaves, and slavery inevitably develops in a country governed this way, because it is impossible that those who spend their time making laws can make shoes and clothes, plant crops, work fields, etc.“
— Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824
„One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.“
— Cristoforo Colombo Explorer, navigator, and colonizer 1451 - 1506
„One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.“
— André Gide, The Counterfeiters
Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925)
Often misquoted as "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Frequently misattributed to Christopher Columbus.
„Who ordained that a few should have the land of Britain as a perquisite, who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?“
— David Lloyd George Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1863 - 1945
Speech in Newcastle (9 October 1909), quoted in The Times (11 October 1909), p. 6
„It is the maximum of the savage; and has, in these times, gained, precisely among the greatest weaklings, very many proselytes. By this ideal, man becomes a Beast-Spirit, a Mixture; whose brutal wit has, for weaklings, a brutal power of attraction.“
— Novalis German poet and writer 1772 - 1801
Context: The ideal of Morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest Strength, of most powerful life; which also has been named (very falsely as it was there meant) the ideal of poetic greatness. It is the maximum of the savage; and has, in these times, gained, precisely among the greatest weaklings, very many proselytes. By this ideal, man becomes a Beast-Spirit, a Mixture; whose brutal wit has, for weaklings, a brutal power of attraction.
„Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing.“
— Ralph Richardson English actor 1902 - 1983
Ralph Richardson, reported in Ashton Applewhite; Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham (2003). And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker. Macmillan, p. 283. .
„A week is a long time in politics.“
— Harold Wilson Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1916 - 1995
Possibly misattributed; according to Nigel Rees in Brewster's Quotations (1994), asked shortly after his retirement in 1977 about the quote, he could not pinpoint the first occasion on which he uttered the words.
„Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.“
— George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008
„People should love each other' sounds like Riis Park at sundown. It has very little meaning to the world at large.“
— James H. Cone American theologian 1938 - 2018
p. 135
„Let Blair and the British government take note and listen. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. Our people are overjoyed. The land is ours. We are now the rulers and owners of Zimbabwe.“
— Robert Mugabe former President of Zimbabwe 1924
Michael White, Andrew Meldrum, "Commonwealth leaders delay decision on defiant Mugabe", The Guardian, 6 December 2003, p. 2.
Speech to ZANU-PF Congress, 5 December 2003.
„Then came the great days of the became historic. The sleepless nights, the permanent sessions. And, finally, the stirring declarations. "The Soviets take power!" "The Soviets address an appeal to the peoples of the world to put an end to the war." "The land is socialized and belongs to the peasants!"“
— Alexandra Kollontai Soviet diplomat 1872 - 1952
