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  • All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

    Real   Men   Law  
  • When it comes to the environment and global warming from emissions, it has to be dealt with in one of two ways - preemptive regulations, which I don't agree with, or with private property principles. Nobody has the right to pollute their neighbors' air or water or land.

    Two   Air   Land  
    "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.
  • We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

    Life   Attitude   Law  
  • The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property.

    Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism”
  • Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

    Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform
  • The slave states of Western world are an outgrowth of monopolistic capitalism - an economic system which is opposed to the wide distribution of private property in many hands. Instead, monopolistic capitalism concentrates productive wealth among a few men, allowing the rest to become a vast proletariat.

    Wisdom   Men   Hands  
  • Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

    Wisdom   Knowledge   Mean  
  • Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

    Funny   Respect   Humor  
    The Man WhoWas Thursday ch. 4 (1908)
  • The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate and personal parts of our lives.

  • Oh, hey. This looks promising. " We came to a stop before a high, barbwire fence with an enormous PRIVATE PROPERTY--NO UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ALLOWED sign on it. The lettering was red, apparently to emphasize how serious they were. Personally, I would have added a skull and crossbones to really drive the message home.

    Home   Skulls   Rose  
    Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.57, Penguin
  • No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.82
  • What is acted out on the female body parallels the larger practices of domination, fragmentation, and conquest against the earth body, which is being polluted, strip-mined, deforested, and cut up into parcels of private property. Equally, this pattern points to the fragmentation of the psyche, which ultimately underlies and enables all of this damage.

  • Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master; and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the basis and foundation of our government.

    Two   Rights   Government  
    St. George Tucker (1990). “A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it in the State of Virginia”
  • Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.

    "That Spot Of Bother On The Border". www.wnd.com. May 04, 2007.
  • If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.

    Believe   Done   Doe  
    Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins
  • It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

    Believe   Race   World  
    Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr
  • If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

    Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
  • There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.

    "Sotomayor: Americans Should be Alarmed by Spread of Drones" by Jacob Gershman, www.politico.com. September 12, 2014.
  • To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

    Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”
  • If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

  • Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

    Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886
  • Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

    Wisdom   Freedom   Mean  
    Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.19, VM eBooks
  • Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.

  • Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.

    Selfish   Power   Men  
    Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.115, Courier Corporation
  • Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.

  • By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

    "The Major Works of Sigmund Freud".
  • In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

    Herbert Marcuse (2005). “Heideggerian Marxism”, p.108, U of Nebraska Press
  • Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.

    Book   Writing   Two  
    Preface to "Country Living and Country Thinking". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.
  • The ashram is Mother's body. Mother's soul is in Her children. Children, all the service done for the ashram, is done for Mother. The ashram is not anyone's private property. It is the means to provide peace and quietude for the entire world.

    Mother   Children   Mean  
  • To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant educational task. The social and economic ideas that gave birth to the transfer system must be discredited and replaced with old values of individual independence and self-reliance. The social philosophy of individual freedom and unhampered private property must again be our guiding light.

    Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”
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