“We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.” MindRealitySpaceNumbersHumilityProductsMathematicsPropertyMathMathematical Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss
“The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.” NeedsLooksValuesWaterLandProductsSourcePureConstantPropertyValuableIncomeOwnersYieldPure Water Author:Bill Mollison
“One ideological claim is that private property is theft, that the natural product of the existence of property is evil, and that private ownership therefore should not exist... What those who feel this way don't realize is that property is a notion that has to do with control - that property is a system for the disposal of power. The absence of property almost always means the concentration of power in the state.” WayFeelsShouldMeanStatesEvilPoliticsRealizingNaturalExistenceEconomyProductsClaimsPropertyNotionAbsenceLiberalismConcentrationOwnershipTheftIdeologicalPrivate Property Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan
“And there is no difference, in principle - but only in degree - between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure.” MenMayUsePoliticalDifferencesPleasurePrinciplesProductsDegreesLaborSlaveryPropertyDenyFormerLatterOwnership Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets
“The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.” IfsImportantLibertyProductsPropertyPrimariesJustificationEfficiencySurvivedPreservationPromotionPrivate PropertyAffluence Author:Milton Friedman
“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.” MenDoeUseCommonLandProductsPropertyPlantLabour Book:The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration Source: The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
“The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as the Golden Rule. It is the way of willing exchange, of common consent, of self-responsibility, of open opportunity. It respects the right of each to the product of his labor. It limits the police force to keeping the peace. It is the way of the free market, private property, limited government. On its banner is emblazoned Individual Liberty.” WayHumansSelfGovernmentOpportunityIndividualForceWishSoundCommonResponsibilityLibertyWillingProductsLimitsLaborPolicePropertyGoldenConsentRight WayFree MarketPrivate PropertyLimited GovernmentGolden RuleBannerIndividual LibertyPolice ForceSelf Responsibility Author:Leonard Read
“The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means not owned by individuals, corporations, governments, or the community as common property. It means that ideas are available to be used by anyone who wants to.” WantShouldMeanIdeasGovernmentUsedIndividualLanguageCommunityCommonCasesProductsIntellectualPropertyEverydayAvailableAlternativesCorporationsStraightforwardIntellectual Property Author:Brian Martin
“"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the emergence in action of a novel relational product, growing out of the uniqueness of the individual."” PersonsLongArtActionIndividualProcessHurtNovelCreativeGrowingProductsPropertyAuthenticityBeing YourselfIndividualismCreative ProcessUniquenessEmergence Author:Carl Rogers
“The bank's product is debt, because the banks want to make sure that they can get paid for the debt. But ultimately the only party that can pay the debt is the government, because it runs the printing presses. So the debts ultimately either are paid by the government, or they're paid by a huge transfer of property from debtors to creditors - or, the debts are written off.” WantGovernmentRunningPartyPayWrittenProductsHugePaidPressesPropertyDebtTransfersPrintingPrinting PressCreditorsDebtors Author:Michael Hudson
“NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed to expand the power of transnational corporations. They're very basically investor's rights agreements. One crucial part in both is the "intellectual property right," which is a funny way of saying that corporations, like pharmaceutical companies, will have near-monopolistic rule over future technology. This now includes product as well as process rights.” WayWellsKindProcessCompanyTechnologyRightsProductsElementsIntellectualPropertyProtectionCorporationsAgreementCrucialInvestorsMixturesIntellectual PropertyPharmaceuticalNaftaPharmaceutical CompaniesTransnational Corporations Author:Noam Chomsky
“We have to understand that America can't just surrender and lose jobs year in and year out. We have to say to our friend in China, look, you guys are playing aggressively. We understand it. But this can't keep on going. You can't keep on holding down the value of your currency, stealing our intellectual property, counterfeiting our products, selling them around the world, even to the United States.” WorldYearsLooksStatesJobsAmericaGuyValuesLosesUnitedUnited StatesProductsIntellectualPropertyChinaSurrenderStealingSellingAround The WorldCurrencyIntellectual Property Author:Mitt Romney