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Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
-Proverb
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
-Natalie Clifford Barney
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Each of us has a natural right -- from God to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?
-Fr
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To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Less is more.
-Robert Browning
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The best things in life aren't things.
-Art Buchwald
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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
-e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings
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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
-Joan Didion
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The more we have the less we own.
-Meister Eckhart
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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury -- to me these have always been contemptible. I assume that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the mind
-Albert Einstein
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Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man owns land, the land owns him.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
-Sigmund Freud
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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
-Erich Fromm
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What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all it be nominally that of
-Friedrich A. Hayek
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
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I do not have what I own, nor do I have what I do. I only have what I am.
-Trinidad Hunt
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Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
-Collis P. Huntingdon
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To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
-Ken Keyes Jr.
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.
-Lewis H. Lapham
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Books about Property
