Cyril Ramaphosa Quotes

Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

No man should be allowed to own any land he does not use.

Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessible systems for registering, tracking and protecting land rights, including customary rights and common property resources.

I don't support deed transfer of lands.

But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

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

Land is everything.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

When I was operating as one of President Reagan's economic advisers, an early assignment was to analyze the federal government's landholdings and make recommendations about what to do with them. This was a big job. These lands are vast, covering an area six times that of France.

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air—it is a right proclaimed by their very existence.

Land is not merely soil.

Nationalization of Land

There is land in Colombia, fortunately, for everybody. We don't have to expropriate land from people who are cultivating that land legally.

Farmers were 'unable to develop their landholdings due to many restrictions. We passed the land pooling policy so they can plan to build infrastructure - with the help of private builders too.

The Communal Land Rights Bill then said, since there would be those collectives set up in terms of the other legislation, there was no need for them to set up other structures to deal with the land issues.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its own produce.

Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land - the land where all the people are - is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway).

Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

No man should have proprietary rights over land who does not use that land wisely and lovingly.