Benevolent Quote by Aristotle

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when…

— R. H. Tawney

Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even…

— Benjamin Franklin

As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems…

— Joshua K. Ingalls

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort,…

— Ayn Rand

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop…

— Pope Pius XII

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property,…

— Aristotle

[T]he crucial question is not, as so many believe, whether property rights should be private or governmental, but rather whether the necessarily 'private' owners…

— Murray Rothbard

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

— Pope Leo XIII

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not…

— William Blackstone

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may…

— Theodore Roosevelt

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him…

— John Locke