It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. – Bertrand Russell, Principles of Social Reconstruction, 1917

Dont buy the house, buy the neighborhood. – Proverb

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

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away. – Anaxagoras