Attending Quote by Aristotle

Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property,…

— Aristotle

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when…

— R. H. Tawney

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which…

— Hilaire Belloc

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

— James Madison

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort,…

— Ayn Rand

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are…

— Thomas Aquinas

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 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

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke