Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

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

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. – Aristotle