What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“who wishes that there was a permanent, unalterable celestial despotism that subjected us to continual surveillance and could convict us of thought-crime,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies… — Maurice Allais Copy Share Image
“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The government in North Korea is a communist dictatorship opposed to private property and markets. But it is difficult to control black… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“it was Marx who declared that the whole idea of Communism could be summed up in a single formula—the abolition of private… — Leszek Kołakowski Copy Share Image
“Stalin formulated the economic aims of socialism as: “The securing of the maximum satisfaction of the constantly rising material and cultural requirements… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property. — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal,… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
“Incidentally, the same logic that would force one to accept the idea of the production of security by private business as economically… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe 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
Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure… — Richard Pipes 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
“The principle which protects personal writings and all other personal productions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not a competition; it is not a monopoly, either. Socialism is not a private property; it is not a state… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
“Just the class division of society creates two different, two parallel worlds/antipodes in this very society. And this means yet two polar… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
