State Property Quotes

The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the proceeds to kill, enslave, and generally push people around. Therefore, any property in the hands of the State is in the hands of thieves, and should be liberated as quickly as possible. Any person or group who liberates such property, who confiscates or appropriates it from the State, is performing a virtuous act and a signal service to the cause of liberty.

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.

Allowing Texas to display the Ten Commandments on State property but disallowing Kentucky courthouses from doing the same is a poor and flawed interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

In Russia, all the property belonged to the state and the most money was made by the people who were involved in privatization. Then 10 years ago the scarcity in Russia was bricks and morter businesses, and many of my engineers … would want to open a chain of drug stores or build homes. Then 5 years ago, many businessmen decided to work for the government. Only now does it make sense to work in technology.

Contrary to the ordinary conception, the real revolution at that time [1917] was not made in the cities, but in the villages. The essential content of the Russian revolution was the tremendous, elemental process which took place among the peasants and resulted in the disruption of the landed estates, the expulsion of the landed proprietors, most of them belonging to the nobility, from their villages, and the forcible appropriation of all private and state lands by the peasants.

Wherever you're from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North Philly, I listened to State Property and stuff. Everything my dad listened to, I listened to.

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.

Pemex will remain 100 percent Mexican.

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

Each landless citizen may occupy and appropriate a small allotment of the National Domain free of charge.

One morning people can wake up and realize there is nothing left to share, that before state property is privatized, all the cream has been skimmed off, and what's left will just be bones.