Quotes About Property

Political economy starts with the fact of private property; it does not explain it to us. It expresses in general, abstract formulas the material process through which private property actually passes, and these formulas it then takes for laws . It does not comprehend these laws — i.e., it does not demonstrate how they arise from the very nature of private property.

All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions. The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favor of bourgeois property.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.

Property, in its present form, is based on the antagonism of capital and wage-labor.

But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

In a real estate man's eye, the most expensive part of the city is where he has a house to sell

All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes men free.

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.