Bureaucrats have no business strong-arming private…

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

— Anonymous

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

— Frederick Douglass

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they…

— James Madison

If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy…

— Walter Block

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

— Daron Acemoglu

I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so…

— George Carlin

For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and…

— Vandana Shiva

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

— Jeannette Rankin

I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The…

— Harvey Fierstein

“It is worth noting that honoring private property rights protects not just the rich; it especially protects the poor.”

— Helen Raleigh

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit…

— Ibn Khaldun

I'm one of those people who believes that part of the greatness of the United States is our private sector. It's what we do…

— Dick Cheney

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

— Ayn Rand