#property

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. ↗

— Tim Berners-Lee

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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#freedom #main #original #private #private property

Where there is no property there is no injustice. ↗

— John Locke

#property #where

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

— John Locke

#every man #himself #his #man #nobody

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. ↗

— Karl Marx

#communism #may #private #private property #property

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of free expression when I lived without that freedom for a while a long time ago. ↗

— John McCain

#believe #campaign #campaign contributions #contributions #dearly

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.' ↗

— Johann Most

#compels #day #every #every day #himself

People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#defining #estate #intellectual #intellectual property #kind

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#cannot #ceremony #divest #gives #i

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

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