The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The quickest and surest way to production, prosperity, and economic growth is through private enterprise. The best way for governments to encourage… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Without the principle of private property there would be no reason for government, which is necessary solely for the purpose of keeping… — Ricardo Flores Magon Copy Share Image
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The public has a vital stake in natural resources, Jim, such as iron ore. The public can’t remain indifferent to reckless, selfish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“It is also interesting to observe that communal ownership violates every instinct of human nature. It destroys initiative, nullifies free agency, suppresses… — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
“The Capitalist Class knows that what brings on the increased supply is not immigration so much, but the improved and ever improving… — Danie DeLeon Copy Share Image
“It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Tea Party Patriots, Inc., as an organization, believes in Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, and Free Markets. Tea Party Patriots, Inc. is… — Mark Meckler Copy Share Image
“We also understand, therefore, that wages and private property are identical. Indeed, where the product, as the object of labor, pays for… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, the same logic that would force one to accept the idea of the production of security by private business as economically… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“A large number of houses deserve to be burnt, most modern furniture, an overwhelming majority of pictures and books - one might… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Still, in 1877, Engels wanted to protect us from false socialism. Still then, in Anti-Dühring, he wrote that not any nationalization is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
This [anti-terrorism bill] is a violation of the First Amendment right to free speech and the Fourth Amendment protection of private property...… — Butch Otter Copy Share Image
“When his culture considered women irrational and the private property of men, Jesus educated women and counted them among his closest friends.c… — Dale Fincher Copy Share Image
“When the government is able to collect tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public… — David Icke Copy Share Image
To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures,… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“Men readily listen" to Utopias, "and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“According to Miller, the goals of the Illuminati (Communism and the NWO) were the destruction of Christianity, monarchies, nation-states (in favor of… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production.… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image