Property Rights Quotes

49 quotes by 41 authors

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. — Ayn Rand
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. — Dick Gregory
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
The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights. — Unknown Author
The supremacy of Parliament and the embedding of property rights in Common Law put political power in the hands of men anxious to exploit the… — Douglass North
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . . — Jeannette Rankin
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. — Abraham Lincoln
A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power. — Kevin Carson
Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society. — Unknown Author
Once the law, properly enacted, is routinely ignored, and ignored with the blessing and the promotion of the political class, then you have a breakdown… — Rush Limbaugh
Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are… — Eric Kierans
Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other. — George Washington
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — Ayn Rand
The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other… — Ayn Rand
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a… — Alan Greenspan
I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits and property rights… — J. S. Woodsworth
If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty… — Dan Glickman
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat… — Paul Starr
Try to imagine a system of labor imposed by force that is not a violation of liberty; a transfer of wealth imposed by force that… — Frederic Bastiat
I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of… — Ward Churchill

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