Atmosphere Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

The public sector can only feed off the private sector; it necessarily lives parasitically upon the private economy. But this means that the productive…

— Murray Rothbard

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

— Ludwig von Mises

The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a…

— Frederick Law Olmsted

“in a world increasingly swayed by private wealth and personal brands.”

— Michael Wolff

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually…

— Chrystia Freeland

“Since money or other resources must be withdrawn from possible alternative uses to finance the supposedly desirable public goods, the only relevant and appropriate…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be…

— Cornel West

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and…

— Neil Abercrombie

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

— Barbara Kingsolver

[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people…

— Tom Bethell

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“Public life drives out private life. The more political our society becomes (in the broadest sense of ‘political’ — the obsessions, the compulsions of…

— Saul Bellow