private property quotes

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.

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

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

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

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

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.