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
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.” — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure. — Mencius Copy Share Image
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution. — Anatoly Chubais Copy Share Image
Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and… — John L. Lewis 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
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
“Your brain is your own personal property, a little bit like a private part, so whatever it decides to think of me… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Economic freedom, limited government and unlimited respect for private property are essential elements for economic growth. — Javier Milei Copy Share Image
“Private property and capitalism also provide strong incentives to preserve resources for the future, whereas political resource allocation under democracy tends toward… — Thomas J. DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize… — Ludwig von Mises 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
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it]… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
The institution of private property... is undergoing, at this time, a strain never put on it before. Not because the corporation, in… — Peter S. Grosscup Copy Share Image
One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge 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
“The so-called “socialism” exceeded the mangiest recommendations of Keynes! Such a regulated state capitalism, such an intervention of the state in the… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“John Locke, called the Father of Liberalism, made the argument that the individual instead of the community was the foundation of society.… — Lierre Keith 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
And these great natural rights may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“It was an idea that made the crucial difference between British and Iberian America – an idea about the way people should… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property. — Barbara Castle Copy Share Image
He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property. — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
“Wages are a direct consequence of estranged labor, and estranged labor is the direct cause of private property.” — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.” — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
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