Quote by Herbert Spencer
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fac

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. – Herbert Spencer

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In science the important thing is to modify and change ones ideas as science advances. – Herbert Spencer

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Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. – Henry David Thoreau

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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. – Joan Didion

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If a man owns land, the land owns him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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