Property Quotes
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
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What between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That’s all that can be said about land.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Property is organized robbery.
Don’t buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.