Private Property Quotes

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

May, Communism, Theory

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

Mind, Somebody, Private

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith

Love, Men, Country

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

Positive, Earth, Private

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
Garrett Hardin

Time, Long, Real

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 particular religion?
Michael Bloomberg

Religion, Government, Lost

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
John L. Lewis

System, Investment, Communism

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.
June Jordan

America, Reason, Violence

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

History, Teach, Private

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

Freedom, Private, Original

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
Dolley Madison

Impossible, Ready, Private

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 public responsibility.
Terry Eagleton

Life, Power, End

Our private property must be sacrificed.
Dolley Madison

Private, Property, Sacrificed

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.
Jim Ryun

Good, Said, Public

One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.
Jim Ryun

Government, Decision, Become

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

Strong, Democracy, Private

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.
Ralph Chaplin

Food, Few, Social

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

Give, Another, Last

Killing the private property-that was the center of the Marxist economy and Marxist ideology. That was the center of the Lenin ideology.
Anatoly Chubais

Economy, Private, Ideology

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

Private, Property

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

Money, Trying, Started

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.
Elton Gallegly

Public, Taken, Shall

I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.
Zach Wamp

Strong, Service, Tears

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

Whole, Idea, Quite

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

Private, Property, Amendment

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

Why, Private, Property

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Work, Family, Time

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
William Blackstone

Good, Great, Law

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
Adrian Cronauer

Rights, Natural, Private

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.
Joseph Story

Wisdom, True, Justice

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