Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us. – Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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

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

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