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title: "17 Common Property Quotes by 14 authors"
description: "Browse 17 Common Property quotes by 14 authors. Discover the best Common Property sayings and thoughts."
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> [The best ideas are common property.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-best-ideas-are-common-property/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [Truth, like climate, is common property.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/truth-like-climate-is-common-property/)

[Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/)

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> [the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/the-field-of-knolege-is-the-common-property-of-all-mankind/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-sumner/the-phrase-public-office-is-a-public-trust-has-of-last-become-common/)

[Charles Sumner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-sumner/)

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> [In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-edgeworth/in-real-friendship-the-judgment-the-genius-the-prudence-of-each-party/)

[Maria Edgeworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-edgeworth/)

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> [It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/it-is-a-position-not-to-be-controverted-that-the-earth-was-and-ever/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maximilien-robespierre/food-that-is-necessary-for-man-s-existence-is-as-sacred-as-life/)

[Maximilien Robespierre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maximilien-robespierre/)

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> [The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-tambo/the-land-on-which-the-cattle-grazed-was-communal-property-it-was/)

[Oliver Tambo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-tambo/)

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> [“the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-greater-the-number-of-owners-the-less-the-respect-for-common/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-martin/the-alternative-to-intellectual-property-is-straightforward/)

[Brian Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-martin/)

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> [We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property, free to be abused by anyone without regard to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-nixon/we-can-no-longer-afford-to-consider-air-and-water-common-property/)

[Richard M. Nixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-m-nixon/)

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> [If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/if-they-do-not-share-equally-enjoyments-and-toils-those-who-labor/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-paine/the-earth-in-its-natural-uncultivated-state-was-and-ever-would-have/)

[Thomas Paine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-paine/)

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> [The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/the-tax-upon-land-values-is-the-most-just-and-equal-of-all-taxes-it/)

[Henry George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-george/)

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> [“In the villages of the Iroquois, land was owned in common and worked in common. Hunting was done together, and the catch…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/in-the-villages-of-the-iroquois-land-was-owned-in-common-and-worked/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashim-shanker/naturally-there-was-the-notion-of-private-property-as-a-pragmatic/)

[Ashim Shanker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashim-shanker/)

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> [It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/it-is-a-moot-question-whether-the-origin-of-any-kind-of-property-is/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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                        "text": "The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race.\" As the land gets cultivated, \"it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is in individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent..to every person, rich or poor...because it is in lieu of the natural inheritance, which, as a right, belongs to every man, over and above the property he may have created, or inherited from those who did",
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                        "text": "The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive.It is the taking by the community for the use of the community of that value which is the creation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by nature be attained.",
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                        "text": "“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to their own possessions with greater care and reverence than they would to common property...in such cases, the notion of ownership would underscore a relationship existing between distinct people, rather than a legal association between a person and that which is said to be possessed, which is to say that ownership was, in its strictest definition, the societal distinction between the owner and the non-owner with respect to the property in question. Beyond this, the concept of ownership varied further from society-to-society according to their respective derivations of natural law, legal positivism and legal realism. Some societies—the indigenous Itako tribes...for example—railed against their governments’ initiatives for private ownership in favor of maintaining equal access to available resources (in the case of the Itako, this was due primarily to the fact that theirs were kin-based tribes whose membership sought to live communally). All the same, even this notion of common possession seemed to me rather arrogant, for the necessitated existence of a public domain was rooted in the shared human dominance over the objects or organisms in question. And so, in my dizzying contemplation, I began to yearn for a greater law that stretched to vast limits beyond that which governed humanity alone. The voice in my mind spoke earnestly of the need for a unifying jurisprudence which could preside over all of Nature’s manifestations in a manner either probabilistically fair or mathematically arbitrary. And perhaps, still, this would not be enough.”",
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                        "text": "It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.",
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