“Exclusive property is a theft against nature.”
Jacques Pierre Brissot (1754–1793) French revolutionary
Original: (fr) La propriété exclusive est un vol dans la nature.
Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 615.
“Property isn't theft: it's nothing.”
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A propriedade não é roubo: não é nada.
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Lawrence Lessig (1961) American academic, political activist.
OSCON 2002
Context: J. C. Watts is the only black member of the Republican Party in leadership. He's going to resign from Congress. He's been there seven and a half years. He's had enough. Nobody can believe it. Nobody in Washington can believe it.... In an interview two days ago, Watts said, Here's the problem with Washington: "If you are explaining, you are losing." If you are explaining, you're losing. It's a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don't, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you're off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem. Six years after this battle began, we're still explaining. We're still explaining and we are losing. They frame this as a massive battle to stop theft, to protect property.... They extend copyrights perpetually. They don't get how that in itself is a form of theft. A theft of our common culture. We have failed in getting them to see what the issues here are and that's why we live in this place where a tradition speaks of freedom and their controls take it away.
Paul Erdős (1913–1996) Hungarian mathematician and freelancer
Referring to a famous statement by the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that "Property is theft!", as quoted in The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (1998) by Paul Hoffman, p. 7
“Give your goods to the poor: Christ.
Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx.”
Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
Verteile Dein Gut an die Armen: Christus.
Eigentum ist Diebstahl – solange es nicht mir gehört: Marx.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)
Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian political theorist, and historian
“This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.”
Variant: This isn't about music. This is about winning.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Source: Fight Club
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.
Walter E. Williams (1936) American economist, commentator, and academic
When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do -- redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God. <br class="br"> On Bogus Right http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/06/bogus.html (8 February 2006) <br class="br">2000s