Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: values greed materialism possessions property
With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this concept of who creates wealth. That wealth is only created when it's owned privately. What would you call clean water, fresh air, a safe environment? Are they not a form of wealth? And why does it only become wealth when some entity puts a fence around it and declares it private property? Well, you know, that's not wealth creation. That's wealth usurpation.
Elaine BernardTags: wealth ethics human-rights property
The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.
Vera NazarianTags: wonder secret secrets pyramid property shape
When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: property
It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the way God had arranged Creation, sanctified in the words of the Apostle. ... Under the common law of England at the accession of King James I, no female had any rights at all (if some were allowed by custom). As an unmarried woman her rights were swallowed up in her father's, and she was his to dispose of in marriage at will. Once she was married her property became absolutely that of her husband. What of those who did not marry? Common law met that problem blandly by not recognizing it. In the words of The Lawes Resolutions [the leading 17th century compendium on women's legal status]: 'All of them are understood either married or to be married.' In 1603 England, in short, still lived in a world governed by feudal law, where a wife passed from the guardianship of her father to her husband; her husband also stood in relation to her as a feudal lord.
Antonia FraserTags: empowerment gender men women history marriage feminism guardianship self-determination misogyny inequality independence husbands fathers matrimony common-law feudalism social-norms married-life property bonds subjugation women-s-rights wedlock
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
Cormac McCarthyTags: nature anarchism property
Owning is owing, having is hoarding.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: property
In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder — is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?
Frédéric BastiatTags: law government self-defense property plunder
my problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity
Cory DoctorowTags: property piracy copyright
Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.
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