Property Rights Quotes
49 quotes by 41 authors
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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
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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
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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
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The best way to help the poor is the provide them property rights.
— Unknown Author
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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
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Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .
— Jeannette Rankin
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Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.
— Abraham Lincoln
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.
— George Washington
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Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
— Ayn Rand
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Property Rights Quotes
41 authors contributed a total of 49 Property Rights Quotes, led by these top contributors: