Aristotle Quotes

The right to private property is valid, but all private property is under a "social mortgage.

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

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

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

The fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to none.

Make no mistake. Without individual property, none are free.

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

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another’s, but under nature everything belongs to all

… since the right of possessing goods privately has been conferred not by man's law, but by nature, public authority cannot abolish it, but can only control its exercise and bring it into conformity with the common weal

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

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

We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be held sacred and inviolable. The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.

Property is impossible.

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

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should be private property-by the right of those who apply the knowledge and effort.

The continued existence of society depends upon private property.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.