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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. – John Locke

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied. – Niccolo Machiavelli

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell – “voluntarily” sell – himself every day and hour to the “beast of property.” – Johann Most, The Beast of Property

“Whatever is not nailed down is mine.” This is the motto of the exploiter. “Whatever can be pried loose is not nailed down.” This is the second maxim in a country where people are rich, caring little in their present prosperity what shall become of the future. – David Starr Jordan, 1910

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. – James Madison

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. – Abraham Lincoln

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

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. – William Blackstone

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. – Sigmund Freud

Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments…. It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. – Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. – Norman Brown

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. – Bill Gates

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

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

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. – Henry David Thoreau

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. – Aristotle

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. – Leo Tolstoy

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. – William Penn

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, “Get the hell off my property.” – Joan Rivers