Terry Pratchett Quotes

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

Property is theft.

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff

It is property which has made tyrants and not tyrants property.

Every man has a right by nature to possess property as his own.

Exclusive property is a theft in nature.

Labor is, on the one hand, more and more furnished by a class; Property or Capital, on the other, held and controlled by another class. Here you have workers without property—the proletariat. There you have property without work—or capital…. The workers without property are excluded from their products, from the riches they create—which accumulate in the hands of the property holders, capitalists and large land-owners.

Property is proper to man.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

Neither Capitalism nor Socialism can pretend to be an ideology. They are merely methods for dividing ownership and income.

Don't talk to me about socialism. What we have, we hold.

In order to have economic democracy you have to have equal access to property.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.