Bases Quote by Peter Singer

“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle…

— George Orwell

“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

“the term “middle class” concealed a fact long true about this country, that, as Richard Hofstadter said: “It was . . . a middle-class…

— Howard Zinn

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

— W. Somerset Maugham

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

— Terry Eagleton

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

There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in…

— Russell Cornell Leffingwell

“Liberalism and Democracy were pre-eminently political concepts, and, since the great majority of the original adherents of both maintained the right of ownership in…

— Rudolf Rocker

“Capitalism is marked by a division between classes, with one class holding private ownership of the means of production, and another class forced to…

— Bob Torres

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

“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves as being…

— Sally Wentworth

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin