Ownership Rights Quotes

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

It is the peasant, the true producer, who is also the true owner and master of Turkey.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

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

In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people. The black people are just there - paying rent, buying the groceries; but they don't own the stores, clothing stores, food stores, any kind of stores; don't even own the homes that they live in. They are all owned by outsiders, and for these run-down apartment dwellings, the black man in Harlem pays more money than the man down in the rich Park Avenue section.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him.

Entitlement? How can you be entitled to someone else's money?

I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.

The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away

All the earth is mine, and I have a right to go all over it and through it.

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.

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

That's a good thing for me. I own everything, I have 100% creative control, I own all my masters, everything. I'm blessed to be in that situation. If we sell some records, I think we'll just add to the historic pace that this has been going at.

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.