Capitalism Quote by Mohsin Hamid

“It is worth noting that honoring private property rights protects not just the rich; it especially protects the poor.”

— Helen Raleigh

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

“Those who speak of our rights as if they were privileges have as their objective the plunder of our property, and our eventual enslavement.”

— Joseph Befumo

Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE PROPERTY IN THE WORLD BUT CONTENTMENT WILL ONLY MAKE YOU RICH”

— Reuben

“We don't steal from the rich and give to the poor. We steal from the poor because they can't fight back --most of them--…

— Peter S. Beagle

“the poor don’t have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal…

— Gary A. Haugen

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and,…

— Benjamin Franklin

“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.”

— Russell Shorto

“...you suffer the rich to do as they wish and hold the less fortunate to a higher standard. Tis unfair and tis the dirty…

— Erica Eisdorfer

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a…

— Lord Acton