The irony of collective ownership is that it spurs more…

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This…

— Ayn Rand

“This is what selfishness does: it fills you with the illusion of separation”

— Δημήτρης Μαμάκος (Dimitris Mamakos

“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

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

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of 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

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

“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

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

— John C. Bogle

During the Soviet era, private ownership was a crime punishable with up to five years in prison.

— Anatoly Chubais

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

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

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

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