#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

#concerned #duty #family #future #hard

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

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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#civilization #despotism #each #economic #equal

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

#communism #employment #fully #institution #investment

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

— Garrett Hardin

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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

#approximate #been #commons #discovery #estate

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

— Walter Lippmann

#freedom #main #original #private #private property

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

— e. e. cummings

#had #his #instant #mind #own

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

#community #even #general #general good #good

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

— Anatoly Chubais

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