Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it"
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Property
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Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend."
Gertrude the Great
Saint
"Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes."
Steven Wright
Comedian
"I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property."
Saint Augustine
Theologian, Philosopher
"Truth is not private property."
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"Property is organized robbery."
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"The life of a citizen is the property of his country."
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"Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property."
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"The property of power is to protect."
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"Without property rights, no other rights are possible."
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"The spirit of property doubles a man's strength."
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"The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general."
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"Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist."
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"My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property."
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"Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good."
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"All property is theft, except mine."
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"I recover my property wherever I find it."
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"You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property."
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"She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male."
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"I believe you got my property?"
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"If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor"
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"Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?"
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"Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property."
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"Where there's property, there's theft."
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"Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it."
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