Private Ownership Quotes

What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it.

The wealthy have installed their slaves in the highest spheres of the state. The banks are privately owned. They are concerned solely with profits. They have no interest in the common good.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

I don't believe government should take over, you know, the grocery store down the street or own the means of production.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore, begins with private property.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.

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

The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

We nor our bailiffs will take another man’s wood for Our castles or any other purpose without the owner’s consent.

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

Private ownership of land is abolished. The entire land fund is declared the property of the nation and turned over free of cost to the toilers on the basis of equal right to its use.

Capitalism is an art form.

Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be that private ownership of the means of production is a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being.... Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art and literature.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.