Private property (n.) is a system whereby each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.
Private property (n.) is responsible for an intellectual dulling in that it reduces all our physical and intellectual senses into the one sense of 'having'. Under this system, an object only becomes ours when we 'have' it, when it exists for us as capital.
Private property (n.) has made us so stupid and one-sided that we think an object is only ours when we have it.
Private property (n.) is not at all necessary. The thought of doing away with it horrifies people, but we rarely stop to consider that for nine-tenths of the population it is already done away with. And what's more, its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths.
Private property (n.) degrades all human senses such that the dealer in minerals sees the market value of the jewels he handles, not their beauty. The abolition of private property will liberate our senses from this alienated condition, and enable us to appreciate the world in a truly human way.
Private property's (n.) ownership accounts for the crucial social phenomenon of history.