Concrete Quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

— Ludwig von Mises

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

— Jose Angel Gurria

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

— Anatoly Chubais

Property, as a general social institution, well-divided property, having disappeared and Capitalism having taken its place, you cannot reverse the process without acting against…

— Hilaire Belloc

The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a…

— Lewis Henry Morgan

No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth.

— Benjamin Franklin

A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own…

— Simon Mainwaring

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit…

— Ibn Khaldun

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

— Ambrose Bierce

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

— Benjamin Franklin

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector

— George Galloway

As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property.

— Ash Sarkar