Private Property Quotes

113 quotes by 84 authors

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government… — Michael Bloomberg
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he… — Huldrych Zwingli
In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property. — Alvin Francis Poussaint
Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The… — Karl Marx
The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. — Walter Lippmann
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore,… — Ludwig von Mises
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve'… — Ayn Rand
The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary… — Walter E. Williams
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill. — Hans F. Sennholz
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist… — Karl Marx
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is… — Charles Caleb Colton
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So… — Milton Friedman
The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial. It is the… — Ayn Rand
The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich… — Paul Brooks
The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property. — William Blackstone
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. — Sigmund Freud
And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts… — Joseph Story
The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected. — Ron Paul

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