“the theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The continued existence of society depends upon private property. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We do not need more federal government overreach and control of our land and water, and I will always fight to protect… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting,… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it]… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Collectivists begin by proclaiming a revolutionary principle - the abolition of private property - and then they deny it, no sooner than… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The so-called “socialism” exceeded the mangiest recommendations of Keynes! Such a regulated state capitalism, such an intervention of the state in the… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“The American Constitution was carefully rigged by the noteholders, land speculators, rum runners, and slave holders who were the Founding Fathers, so… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Stalin formulated the economic aims of socialism as: “The securing of the maximum satisfaction of the constantly rising material and cultural requirements… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property,… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as… — Susan McDonough Copy Share Image
“The road simply ended. No cul-de-sac. No sign like the ones they had seen before: "Private Property. No Trespassing." Or "No Motorized… — Robert Liparulo Copy Share Image
Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
“Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. ” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate… — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value'… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image