Community Quote by Ludwig von Mises Download Open image “The continued existence of society depends upon private property.” — Ludwig von Mises ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Depends Existence Inspirational Life Private property Property
“For us the issue cannot be the alteration of private property but only its annihilation, not the smoothing over of class antagonisms but the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
My concern over private property is that it no longer fosters individuality. The historic destiny of private property is that it has created a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems… — Joshua K. Ingalls Copy Share Image
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image