“Conservatives believe in private property because they respect the autonomy of the individual. But it is fair to say that too many… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution. — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate… — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property,… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as… — Susan McDonough Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God;… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“a free economy is an economy run by free beings. And free beings are responsible beings. Economic transactions in a regime of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The ashram is Mother's body. Mother's soul is in Her children. Children, all the service done for the ashram, is done for… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Indeed there is a strong general cases, founded on the legitimacy of a considerable degree of egoism and self-referential altruism, and connected… — J.L. Mackie Copy Share Image
“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“To extend the digital metaphor, both rivals must also reconsider the fitness of their apps for the twenty-first century. In his book… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men,we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no… — Lame Deer Copy Share Image
“The success of Communism naturally depends on altering human nature because few things are more inherent in human nature than the ownership… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
“Legal and political theory have committed much mischief by failing to pinpoint physical invasion as the only human action that should be… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
“It’s difficult to take oneself with sufficient seriousness to begin any sentence with the words “Thou shalt not.” But who cannot summon… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Or how does it happen that trade, which after all is nothing more than the exchange of products of various individuals and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
“Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury. CATO THE ELDER1” — Mike Duncan Copy Share Image
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it, neither our free enterprise system nor our… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a… — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources… — Matt Cartwright Copy Share Image
In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it;… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“My great worry is the problem of poverty…Instead of prisons, I would have schools, art and vocational academies, free trade, free love,… — Luisa Capetillo Copy Share Image