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
“Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.” — Elizabeth Graver 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
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
“For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I", and cuts you off forever from the "we".” — John Steinbeck 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
He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property. — Dixie Lee Ray Copy Share Image
Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property. — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for… — Huldrych Zwingli 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
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When capital owners are few, the private-property conduits of necessity create vast savings reservoirs for those few. If there were many owners,… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better… — Margaret Thatcher 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
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 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
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
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker 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
“It is all very well to have some internal sense of oneself as an individual, but that sense must correspond to an… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you… — Rush Limbaugh 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
“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
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution. — Anatoly Chubais 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
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
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
“The sun is pure communism everywhere but in cities, where it's private property.” — Malcolm de Chazal Copy Share Image
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