Quotes of: Private-property Keyword

Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.

Gustave de Molinari

Our private property must be sacrificed.

Dolley Madison

Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private proper...

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined...

Terry Eagleton

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

Anatoly Chubais

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

Thomas Piketty

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Walter Lippmann

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

Anatoly Chubais

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

Karl Marx

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

Dixie Lee Ray

Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy.

Jim Ryun

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.

Thomas Piketty

You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands ...

The Communist Manifesto

The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property they have not succeeded, but they continue on the path of destruction of the family and the ...

Vladimir Bukovsky

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Ambrose Bierce

Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development.

Cliff Stearns

Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their ...

Michael Bloomberg

The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberalism as espoused by, for instance, Charles Comte and Charles Dunoyer. According to them, antagonistic interests do not exist between capitalists, as own...

The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy