Robert Mugabe Quotes

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

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?

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

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.

It appears that land is the true center of power, and that the balance of dominion changes with the balance of property…

Nationalization of Land

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

The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans.

Under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them. Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement, should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.

We got our land at the right time, but when we go for additional land for our schools or the museum, there will be extra cost.

Successful negotiation is not about getting to 'yes'; it's about mastering 'no' and understanding what the path to an agreement is.

I'll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there's communication.

We didn't create an institution to increase land value or asset value.

I don't support deed transfer of lands.

I talk to business; I talk to labor. I talk to everybody.

Not one word," Kel warned. "Tobe and I have reached an understanding." Neal's lips twitched. "Why do I feel you did most of the understanding.

What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.

What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree

Aside from the obvious, Francesca, what do you want in return for supplying information?” Bones asked, getting back to the subject. “You to take me,” she replied at once. “Not gonna happen!” I spat, squeezing him possessively. Three sets of widened eyes fixed on me. That’s when I realized that what I had a firm grip on was no longer his hand.

Why precisely do we want to change land ownership? The answer seems to me to be quite clear: to inhibit land speculation, to inhibit the private exploitation of the scarcity-value of land, to inhibit as we might say the cornering of land.

It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.