Quote by John Locke
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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. – 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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. – John Locke

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The more we have the less we own. – Meister Eckhart

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No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. – Charles Dudley Warner

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By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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