No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
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
“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe 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
“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
“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
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
Economic freedom, limited government and unlimited respect for private property are essential elements for economic growth. — Javier Milei 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
What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
From the Anarchist standpoint, these artificial hindrances which are the cause of three main forms of usury-interest, profit, and rent, are, in… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Liberalism makes this mistake in regard to private property and Marxism makes it in regard to socialized property... The Marxist illusion is… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“The history of China’s “land reform” was written in the tears and blood of landowners like my great-grandfather. But the 300 million… — Helen Raleigh Copy Share Image
Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of… — Ilana Mercer 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“Dewey was a stern critic of capitalism and private property rights, which he condemned as a relic of early American principles reinforced… — Mark R. Levin 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
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. Essentially, what we've been… — Naomi Klein 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
“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
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
We do not need more federal government overreach and control of our land and water, and I will always fight to protect… — Lauren Boebert Copy Share Image
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.” — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
“Once you believe that god is not a private property of anybody, you are on your way to becoming a new messiah.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana 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
