“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
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 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
The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
“The principle which protects personal writings and all other personal productions, not against theft and physical appropriation, but against publication in any… — Glenn Greenwald 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
As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty,… — Ludwig von Mises 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
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
“First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“I could never feel like that about any public issue. Sometimes I wish I could. For me, if I'm honest, politics is… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“On the day when you again allow abominable men to confiscate your freedom, your money, your lives, your private property, your manhood… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Have private property, capitalist exploitation and class rule ceased to exist? Or, have the propertied classes in a spell of patriotic fervour… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
“At present, in this vicinity, the best part of the land is not private property; the landscape is not owned, and the… — Henry David Thoreau 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
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
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
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads.… — Jim Ryun 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
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
“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
“Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Ability to disseminate one's ideas on the Internet is now a sine qua non of inclusion in the global public sphere. However,… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It was all well enough in the Southland, under the law of love and fellowshipm to respect private property and personal feelings;… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image