English Proverb or Saying Quotes

What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.

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

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.

Socialism is a scientific scheme of national organization, entirely wise, just, and practical. It is a kind of national cooperation. Its programme consists, essentially, of one demand, that the land, and all other instruments of production and exchange, shall be the common property of the nation, and shall be used and managed by the nation for the nation.

I do not believe in government ownership of anything which can with propriety be left in private hands, and in particular I should most strenuously object to government ownership of railroads. In my judgment public ownership of railroads is highly undesirable and would probably in this country entail far-reaching disaster.

No less than 50 percent of the means of production must be in the hands of the state.

Certain forms of property must be reserved to the state, since they carry with them an opportunity of domination too great to be left to private individuals without injury to the community at large.

Anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community.

The property of the estate owners doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.

Society must look upon germ-plasm as belonging to society and not merely to the individual who carries it.

The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

When everyone owns something, in reality nobody owns it. Control then occurs merely by the whims of the politicians in power.

God made all men, and he did not make some to crawl on hands and knees and others to ride upon their backs.

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

When the people share everything in the state, then will we truly reach the goal of the Min Sheng Principle, which is Confucius' hope of a 'great commonwealth.'

The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

A capitalistic kibbutz is not a bad idea. You need both.

What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value' rather than 'exchange value.' It does not exist to generate profits.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Well socialism is exactly the reverse.

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.

"The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility comes a little sharing of the load." "There isn't enough money to organize poor people. There never is enough money to organize anyone. If you put it on the basis of money, you're not going to succeed."