Top 1200 Private Property Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

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

Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res...erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.

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

Are you aware it is private property? Why you'll be asking be to bomb Essen next.

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.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

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

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

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.

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

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

We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly. Let the owners of the immoveable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back.

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

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

We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

As the liberal sees it, the task of the state consists solely and exclusively in guaranteeing the protection of life, health, liberty, and private property against violent attacks. Everything that goes beyond this is an evil. A government that, instead of fulfilling its task, sought to go so far as actually to infringe on personal security of life and health, freedom, and property would, of course, be altogether bad.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights. He who has robbed another of his property, will next endeavor to disarm him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber becomes the legislator he believes himself secure.

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

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

If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.

The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment of just compensation.

The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of personal freedom and of private property of all its citizens.

Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the world. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest.

Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production. The only simple property system is that of a slave society with a single slave owner - which, significantly, is the limiting case of despotism and of monopoly. Departure from such a system is a fair measure of human progress.

Monopolistic capitalism is to blame for this; it sunders the right to own property from responsibility that owning property involves. Those who own only a few stocks have no practical control of any industry. They vote by postcard proxy, but they have rarely even seen "their" company. The two elements which ought to be inextricably joined in any true conception of private property - ownership and responsibility - are separated. Those who own do not manage; those who manage; those who manage and work do not control or own.

All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people experience the consequences of their own acts. Property sets up fences, but it also surrounds us with mirrors, reflecting back upon us the consequences of our own behavior.

Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources.

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random. The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms. As for the victims, the government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.

As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

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

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.