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Property Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.
- 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'…
- No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and…
- 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…
- Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
- The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other…
- The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the…
- Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
- Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should…
- The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights...
- Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit…
- Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to…
- I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as…
- It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and…
More Property Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in… — Roger Babson
- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
- I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to… — Michael Badnarik
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. — John Adams
- Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,… — Frederic Bastiat
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat
- Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together… — Samuel Adams
- In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights,… — James Belushi