#owners

And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#john-steinbeck #land #owners #revolt #the-grapes-of-wrath

I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet. ↗

— James Larkin

#aware #control #course #development #i

What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners. ↗

— Ted Lindsay

#had #owners #team #time #you

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers. ↗

— Ed Miliband

#company #customers #just #owners #workers

Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers. ↗

— Gary Miller

#business #business owners #currently #eligible #find

The quality of ownership is not what it was in yesteryear. ↗

— Art Modell

#quality

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners. ↗

— Gale Norton

#build #communities #especially #gets #going

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#alcohol #bad #children #comes #country

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship. ↗

— Barack Obama

#billions #break #breaks #choose #college

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#guns #illegal #kill #majority #often