A Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Property is theft.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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Property Theft

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
French - Economist
January 15, 1809 - January 19, 1865

Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

Kevin Bales

One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.

George Carlin

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

Paul Erdos

Where there's property, there's theft.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

Fernando Pessoa

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need