Has beens Quote by Karl Marx

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

— Karl Marx

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

— e. e. cummings

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

The use of our possessions shows us up for what we actually are.

— Charles Caldwell Ryrie

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

[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people…

— Tom Bethell

We must recognize that only scarce resources are ownable; second, that the body is a type of scarce resource; third, that the mode of…

— Stephan Kinsella

“We all instinctively understand that the private realm is where we can act, think, speak, write, experiment, and choose how to be, away from…

— Glenn Greenwald

Possession diminishes perception of value, immediately

— John Updike

Our possessions don't own us any more, because we don't possess them.

— Dan Davis

“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