Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property. — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Dogs must have a permit signed by the mayor in order to congregate in groups of three or more on private property. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Peaceful demonstrations are essential to our democratic system. Unfortunately, some individuals have engaged in unlawful and dangerous activity, including arson, rioting, looting,… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
The sanctity of private property is so fundamental a part of the American settlement that the country's conservatives look with suspicion on… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for… — Huldrych Zwingli Copy Share Image
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads.… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowshipm to respect private property and personal feelings;… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Ability to disseminate one's ideas on the Internet is now a sine qua non of inclusion in the global public sphere. However,… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
“Dewey was a stern critic of capitalism and private property rights, which he condemned as a relic of early American principles reinforced… — Mark R. Levin Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
I think a decent society should protect rights to private property within limits, but not concentrations of private power that infringe on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“That the Open Society cannot exist without extensive individual property rights that clearly identify endowments and freedom to employ them does not… — Gerald F. Gaus Copy Share Image
“Straining to hear, I can make out something acoustic. Coming from...the backyard? I glance down from my bedroom window and feel my… — Emery Lord Copy Share Image
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didin't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we didn't… — John (Fire) Lame Deer Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of people cannot possess something they value without being possessed by it.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image