A people averse to the institution of private property is…

The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in essence, is…

— Peter S. Grosscup

“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. ”

— Oscar Wilde

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when…

— R. H. Tawney

We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

— Adolf Hitler

The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government…

— Matt Cartwright

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the…

— Evo Morales

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

— Garrett Hardin

The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many…

— Marian Wright Edelman

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

— Anatoly Chubais

Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is partly derived…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

— Helen Raleigh

There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

— Pope Leo XIII