Private property Quotes

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our private property must be sacrificed.

— Dolley Madison

Truth is not private property.

— Saint Augustine

If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

— Facundo Cabral

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

— Thomas Jefferson

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

— John Adams

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

— Thomas Piketty

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

— Benjamin Franklin

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

— Dixie Lee Ray

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

— Walter Lippmann

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

— Hans F. Sennholz

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

— Anatoly Chubais

Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property.

— Anonymous

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market…

— Thomas Piketty

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

— William Blackstone

If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better…

— Margaret Thatcher

We do not need more federal government overreach and control of our land and water, and I will always fight to protect…

— Lauren Boebert

“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.”

— Oscar Wilde

Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting,…

— Ted Wheeler

In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies…

— Maurice Allais

“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not…

— Milton Friedman

For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the…

— Niall Ferguson

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has…

— Oscar Wilde

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution…

— George Bernard Shaw

One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads.…

— Jim Ryun

The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures…

— Tom Bethell

We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at…

— Elizabeth Diller

“The government in North Korea is a communist dictatorship opposed to private property and markets. But it is difficult to control black…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“Dewey was a stern critic of capitalism and private property rights, which he condemned as a relic of early American principles reinforced…

— Mark R. Levin

Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;…

— St. George Tucker

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the…

— Pope Leo XIII

“With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One…

— Elaine Bernard

I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on…

— Noam Chomsky

“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been…

— Naomi Klein

“Such [communistic] legislation may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced to believe that…

— Aristotle

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.

— Sigmund Freud

Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.

— Rashida Tlaib