{"quotes":[{"text":"The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["fire","property","find "],"id":9037,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.","author":"John Jay","tags":["earth","property","right "],"id":21689,"author_id":"John+Jay"},{"text":"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["man","property","should "],"id":27219,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.","author":"John Locke","tags":["society","why","property "],"id":31129,"author_id":"John+Locke"},{"text":"Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?","author":"Matthew","tags":["property"],"id":35148,"author_id":"Matthew"},{"text":"Some people will each start investing more of their salary on ‘their’ house and spending less of it on ‘their’ car or cars only when they start being able to take ‘their’ house to work, funerals, weddings, etc.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acquisition","asset","assets","backing","bond","car","cars","conspicuous-consumption","consumerism","debt","divorce","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","expend","financing","funding","funeral","funerals","gamble","gambling","holding","house","houses","humor","humour","invest","investing","investment","job","loan","marriage","materialism","mortgage","properties","property","return-on-investment","risk","roi","satire","show-off","speculate","speculation","spend","venture","wedding","weddings","work"],"id":43131,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.","author":"William James","tags":["property"],"id":43453,"author_id":"William+James"},{"text":"Central to Möser's view of the human world was 'honor,' a notion that was as important to corporatist society as the notion of dignity would be for the more individualistic society that succeeded it. In Möser's view, a person acquired his identity from his place in the institutional structure of society, a society in which economic, social, and political institutions were not distinguished from one another. His status (as a guildsman, noble landowner, serf, or independent peasant cottager) determined not only how he earned his living, but his sense of who he was, of what his duties and obligations were, of those to whom he ought to defer and those who ought to defer to him. (In the language of modern sociology, Möser's society was one in which almost all of the individual's roles derived from a single status.) Who one was was largely a continuation of what one's forebears had been. For Möser the real self was the socially encumbered self, the self based on status, on historical and regional particularity, and on property. It was a self whose prime virtue was honor. Status and the honor that attached to it were inherited, although they could be lost if one failed to live up to the duties of one's rank.","author":"Jerry Z. Muller","tags":["corporatist-society","honor","property","status"],"id":45603,"author_id":"Jerry+Z.+Muller"},{"text":"At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["anarchism","nature","property"],"id":58188,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["property"],"id":58953,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":109,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}