Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property. — Alvin Francis Poussaint Copy Share Image
Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“It is worth noting that honoring private property rights protects not just the rich; it especially protects the poor.” — Helen Raleigh Copy Share Image
“Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.” — Elizabeth Graver Copy Share Image
That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
“Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels said, “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private… — Barry Asmus Copy Share Image
The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
“But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is… — Frederick Engels Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go.” — John Cage Copy Share Image
“Collectivists begin by proclaiming a revolutionary principle - the abolition of private property - and then they deny it, no sooner than… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
In practice, without appropriate government intervention, Smith's "invisible hand" dons brass knuckles and conducts gang warfare, creating fierce battles between competitors who… — Denise Caruso 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
“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The methods from which the different non-anarchist parties expect, or say they do, the greatest good of one and all can be… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Jesus himself remains an enigma. There have been interesting attempts to uncover the figure of the ‘historical’ Jesus, a project that has… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Our very word ‘family’ shares a root with the Latin famulus, meaning ‘house slave’, via familia which originally referred to everyone under… — David Graeber, David Wengrow Copy Share Image
“The earliest use of writing was strictly commercial and economic, not political or bureaucratic. It was trade, entrepreneurship, and stewardship of private… — Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski Copy Share Image
“The American Constitution was carefully rigged by the noteholders, land speculators, rum runners, and slave holders who were the Founding Fathers, so… — G. William Domhoff Copy Share Image
If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next. — Kingsley Wood Copy Share Image
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
“The sun is pure communism everywhere but in cities, where it's private property.” — Malcolm de Chazal Copy Share Image
“the theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
