Jeremy Bentham Quotes

Make no mistake. Without individual property, none are free.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

Every man has a right by nature to possess property as his own.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

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.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be "secured" - but with no accompanying responsibility - is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.

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

It is no monopoly in any other sense than as a man's own house is a monopoly. But a man's right to his own invention is a very different matter. It is no more a monopoly for him to possess that, than to possess his own homestead .

You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

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

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.