Character Quote by Lord Acton

The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way; those who do things in this Certain…

— Wallace D. Wattles

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The…

— Henry David Thoreau

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain…

— John Adams

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

— Robert Dale Owen

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and…

— James F. Cooper

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being…

— James Russell Lowell

If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

— Oscar Wilde

“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. ”

— Oscar Wilde

Wealth is not necessarily a bad thing when it has been earned in an honest manner and neither other individuals nor the environment suffered…

— Dalai Lama

Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a…

— George Stillman Hillard