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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their

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

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When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. – John Locke

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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality. – John Locke

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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. – John Locke

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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

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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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What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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