#property

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#demand #fines #imprisonment #justice #personal

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death by being the only man in the Cranford parties, or he is accounted for by being with his regiment, his hip, or closely engaged in business all the week in the great neighbouring commercial town of Drumble, distant only twenty miles on a railroad. In short, whatever does become of the gentlemen, they are not at Cranford. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#humor #literature #men #ownership #people

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology. ↗

— Eric Allman

#getting #intellectual #intellectual property #law #much

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. ↗

— John Jay

#earth #our #power #property #right

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

#become #dangerous #man #morally #nationally

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#endangers #hands #nation #property #remain

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#awe #deprived #discourage #ensue #horrid

Property is theft. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#theft

The possessions of the rich are stolen property. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#property #rich #stolen