Barricades Quote by Tom Robbins

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of…

— Tom Robbins

The U.S.A. economic policy and practice have been largely influenced by this thought that people shall own property in their own right and in…

— Ndabaningi Sithole

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by…

— Daniel Webster

“Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

— Louis O. Kelso

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

— Max Weber

[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

“A government is a territorial monopolist of compulsion-an agency which may engage in continual, institutionalized property rights violations and the expropriation, taxation and regulation-of…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found in the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

— Howard W. Koch

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson