Beings Quote by Martin Freeman

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

— William Blackstone

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

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to…

— Walt Whitman

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

I like the idea of all of us looking at the world with less of an emphasis on national borders and with more of…

— Lee Isaac Chung

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

— Karl Marx

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

— Virginia Woolf

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how…

— Henry David Thoreau

With reason, then, the common opinion of mankind, little affected by the few dissentients who have contended for the opposite view, has found in…

— Pope Leo XIII

“We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— John Locke