“THE CONTRAST OF South and North Korea, and of the United States and Latin America, illustrates a general principle. Inclusive economic institutions… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“[T]he power of enclosing land and owning property was brought into the creation by your ancestors by the sword; which first did… — Winstanley Copy Share Image
[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique,… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt"… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Men readily listen" to Utopias, "and are easily induced to believe that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
“A large number of houses deserve to be burnt, most modern furniture, an overwhelming majority of pictures and books - one might… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society: all that it does is to deprive him of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image