"How far, O rich, do you extend your senseless avarice? Do you intend to be the sole inhabitants of the earth? Why do you drive out the fellow sharers of nature, and claim it all for yourselves? The earth was made for all, rich and poor, in common. Why do you rich claim it as your exclusive right? The soil was given to the rich and poor in common—wherefore, oh, ye rich, do you unjustly claim it for yourselves alone? Nature gave all things in common for the use of all; usurpation created private rights. Property hath no rights. The earth is the Lord's, and we are his offspring. The pagans hold earth as property. They do blaspheme God."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Ambrose of Milan, in The Cry for Justice (1915), p. 397
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Land
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Land
60 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Land →
Related Quotes
"The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people. Sh…"
"This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York Island From the Redwood Forest to the Gu…"
"Generally speaking, no young tree is allowed to stand on copyhold land."
"LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private o…"
"When they laid down their arms, we murdered them. We lied to them. We cheated them out of their lands. We starved the…"
"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 pro…"
"We are the land, and the land is mother to us all."
"The Negro voter ... had, then, but one clear economic ideal and that was his demand for land, his demand that the gre…"
"Globalization made the large open spaces of the Americas, its “open frontiers,” valuable. Often these frontiers were …"
"Happiness is... ...land"