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The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.

— Adrian Cronauer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

— Anatoly Chubais

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

— Potter Stewart

I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.

— John C. Malone

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

— Garrett Hardin

Citizens' rights cannot be protected if their digital activities are governed and policed by opaque and publicly unaccountable corporate mechanisms.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

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.

— Aristotle

✗Opposing Perspectives

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

— Barbara Castle

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

— Walter Lippmann

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

— John Jay