The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. – John Locke
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
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands. – John Locke
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. – John Locke
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