Quote by Leo Tolstoy
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and

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

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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat. – Leo Tolstoy

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All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. – Leo Tolstoy

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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? – Natalie Clifford Barney

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

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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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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

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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do. – Andrea Dworkin

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