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“What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.” — Russell Shorto Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others might pick… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
“granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall,” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The previous day, December 6, Sprague had upbraided his crew for their sloppy performance during an intensive series of drills. He broke with his… — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image
“I have to tell you, Major, if we don't get these bombs and stop this Jap fleet, they're gonna come in here and bomb… — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image
“When they get in trouble, they send for the sons-of-bitches” — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image
“Though distrust of the Japanese was widespread in the Navy, Sprague was among the first to appreciate exactly what the Japanese might do. In… — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image
“...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its… — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image
“Neither triumphalism, condemnation, nor apology does intellectual or emotional justice to the brute reality of this savage war, the outcome of which could not… — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image
“Inbound now at twenty thousand feet, moving swifly toward the island, came a wave of twin-engine Betty bombers and thirty Zeros, fuel burning fast… — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image