Quotes About Private property

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage. The fields made a gift of berries to us and we made a gift of them to our father. The more something is shared, the greater its value becomes. This is hard to grasp for societies steeped in notions of private property, where others are, by definition, excluded from sharing.

Maybe we've all been banished to lonely corners by our obsession with private property.

Maybe we've all been banished to lonely corners by our obsession with private property. We've accepted banishment even from ourselves when we spend our beautiful, utterly singular lives on making more money, to buy more things that feed but never satisfy. It is the Windigo way that tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave.

A capitalist society requires certain preconditions. Among other things, it must establish a rule of law through enforceable contracts; respect private property; create a trustworthy bureaucracy to arbitrate legal disputes; and offer patents and other protections to promote invention

Washington and the other founders of the United States designed a governmental and economic structure to serve the private property interests of each and all of the primary actors, nearly all of them slavers and land speculators.

Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood's forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth… Rousseau said that the first person who wanted a piece of nature as his or her own exclusive possession and transformed it into the transcendent form of private property was the one who invented evil. Good, on the contrary, is what is common.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital:

Now in truth our society is not a "capitalist system" at all, but a complex cultural and social arrangement that comprehends religion, morals, prescriptive political institutions, literary culture, a competitive economy, private property, and much more besides. It is not a system designed to secure and advance the interests of great possessors of capital goods unjustly acquired.

There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

we see how labour could make men distinct titles to several parcels of it, for their private uses; wherein there could be no doubt of right, no room for quarrel.

It was Aristotle who first made private property the basis of the good life and the independent householder the basis of the free polis.18 The world of the Enlightenment took him firmly at his word.

The Muslim veil, the different sorts of masks and beaks and "burkas", are all gradations of mental slavery. (...) The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. (...) I felt anger that this subjugation is silently tolerated (...) by so many Western societies where the equality of sexes is legally enshrined.

The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the world; it restrains them, confines them, grooms them for docility. A mind can be cramped just as a body may be, and a Muslim veil blinkers both your vision and your destiny. It is the mark of a kind of apartheid, not the domination of a race but of a sex.

There's no such thing as private property in nature! The woods and fields belong to the earth, and so do we.

Morality of Reward and Punishment plays an enormous role in the conservative worldview. The reward side rules out any government distribution of wealth or benefits that is not based on free market competition, and it makes the right to the disposition of private property absolute; the punishment side focuses the criminal justice system on retribution.

Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic development.

todo socialismo, al poner en marcha la planificación económica, al acabar con la competencia y la propiedad privada, establece automáticamente un mecanismo que a la corta o a la larga liquida el pluralismo político y las libertades, lo quieran o no los planificadores.

El efecto práctico de esta creencia es el socialismo (que Hayek identifica con la planificación económica y el dirigismo estatista), un sistema que, para imponerse, necesita la abolición de la libertad, de la propiedad privada, del respeto de los contratos, de la independencia de la justicia y la limitación de la libre iniciativa individual.

Selon Hayek, tout socialisme, lorsqu'il active la planification économique et met fin à la concurrence et à la propriété privée, établit automatiquement un mécanisme qui, à plus ou moins brève échéance, liquide le pluralisme politique et les libertés, que les planificateurs le veuillent ou non.

Es decir, su odio al individualismo y al pensamiento liberal basado en el respeto a la propiedad privada, a la coexistencia de ideas y creencias distintas en el seno de una sociedad democrática, a la libre empresa, a la economía de mercado y a la libertad política.

Destronada pelo advento da propriedade privada, é a ela que o destino da mulher permanece ligado durante os séculos: em grande parte, a sua história confunde-se com a história da herança.