“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.
“Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match. It is a compulsory seizure of the property of the State’s inhabitants, or subjects.”
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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.
“The whole idea, the whole premise of taxation needs to be examined. It's based on theft.”
Glenn Jacobs (1967) American professional wrestler and actor
19:20&#8211;19:25. <br class="br"> "WWE Wrestler Kane Talks Libertarianism, and His Heroes" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqUIwu8nuc (2013)
“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.
Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945) American journalist
Source: On Doing the Right Thing and Other Essays (1928), p. 143
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)
Jack Thompson (attorney) (1951) American activist and disbarred attorney
Letter to US Attorney R. Alexander Acosta, quoted in [2008-04-28, GTA IV sex video gives Thompson, other critics fresh ammo, Ben Kuchera, Ars Technica, http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2008/04/jack-thompson-targets-gta-iv-with-an-unlikely-ally-ign/, 2014-11-18]
