Private Property Quotes

• When private property is abolished there will be no necessity for crime, no demand for it; it will cease to exist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Crime
  • Demand
  • Necessity

• The recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Aim
  • Individualism

• If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

  

  Facundo Cabral
  • Property
  • Thieves
  • Private Property

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

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Aggression
  • Human Love
  • Private Property

• Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Value
  • Values
  • Property

• One of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, which is in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.

  

  Harry Stack Sullivan
  • Change
  • Illusion
  • Difficulties

• Americans have a longstanding affinity with railroads and railroad tracks, but train tracks are private property and are dangerous places where trains kill and injure hundreds of people every year.

  

  Christopher Hart
  • Dangerous
  • Americans
  • Injure