Property is organized robbery. – George Bernard Shaw

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

“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

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