During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime…

Apostasy from Islam is a crime and is punishable by death.

— Ali Gomaa

“In Connecticut the crime of oral sex could be punishable by a thirty-year jail term. In Ohio it was one to twenty years. In…

— Gay Talese

“That’s a federal crime,” I told him. “Punishable by three to five years in a minimum-security prison. You’ll get passed around like condiments at…

— T.J. Klune

“For either killing or creating may be a crime punishable by death, and the death always comes by the criminal's own hand and every…

— Robert Penn Warren

The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.

— John C. Bogle

We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be held sacred…

— Pope Leo XIII

As we settle into 2013, I predict this: We'll see companies that promote this shift from private ownership thrive. More people will be able…

— Lynn Jurich

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesnt get trashed.

— John C. Malone

This country has achieved its commercial and financial supremacy under a regime of private ownership. It conquered the wilderness, built our railroads, our factories,…

— George B. Cortelyou

Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are…

— Henry George

For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only that individuals…

— Pope Pius XI

“Communal ownership means that all benefit for a short time; private ownership means that few people benefit over the course of an extended period…

— Eric Robert Morse

“In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn…

— Wendell Berry

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

— Ludwig von Mises

Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're…

— Noam Chomsky