Books Quote by Ali Smith

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

— James Madison

PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Formal property’s contribution to mankind is not the protection of ownership; squatters, housing organizations, mafias, and even primitive tribes manage to protect their assets…

— Hernando de Soto

“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

A property is that which not at all Can be disjoined and severed from a thing Without a fatal dissolution: such, Weight to the…

— Lucretius

Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and…

— James F. Cooper

Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to…

— Charles Eisenstein

“property of the U.S.”

— James D. Hornfischer

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

— Max Stirner

“The idea that property has overcome our personalities is the single reason we'll miss the best part of our lives. It's people, not possessions…

— Brian Krans

“Property has ever been a fluid concept--just ask the wife of the Wall Street speculator who writes her party invitations on Marie Antoinette's escritoire.”

— Anna Godbersen

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain…

— John Adams