If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. – Oscar Wilde
The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country. – John Adams
Dont buy the house, buy the neighborhood. – Proverb
Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? – Natalie Clifford Barney
To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same. – Bhagavad Gita
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. – Calvin Coolidge
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings
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
The more we have the less we own. – Meister Eckhart
Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury — to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind – Albert Einstein
Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man owns land, the land owns him. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? – Erich Fromm
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. – Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am. – Trinidad Hunt
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. – Collis P. Huntingdon
To be upset over what you dont have is to waste what you do have. – Ken Keyes Jr.
Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isnt the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul. – Lewis H. Lapham
