Quote by Hernando de Soto

[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels…

— Ali Smith

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

People are more important than property.

— Roy 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, 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] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

— James Madison

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

“The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming.”

— James Dale Davidson

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

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them in great…

— David Hume

In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of…

— James Madison