Time Quote by Eric Robert Morse

“the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of…

— Aristotle

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not…

— Saint Augustine

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of…

— Hilaire Belloc

“It is also interesting to observe that communal ownership violates every instinct of human nature. It destroys initiative, nullifies free agency, suppresses inventive exploration,…

— W. Cleon Skousen

“Fully cooperative people, we may say, see themselves as equals, as having grounds for special treatment only in special circumstances that others will equally…

— Aaron James

“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to their own…

— Ashim Shanker

“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle…

— George Orwell

“Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, “society”, inevitably…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“And "sharing the work of survival," therefore, means resisting every temptation towards independence, towards personal liberty, towards "doing your own thing". This takes s…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“There is no such thing in a civilized society as self-support. In a state of society so barbarous as not even to know family…

— Edward Bellamy

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

What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market,…

— John Stossel