property, n.Definitions

Property is shackles. He who owns little is little owned.

Property is an object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Property is any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by a against the cupidity of b.

Property is dishonest whenver it is disproportionate to the labor spent on it.

Property is essential to manhood. A man who does not own a piece of land is not a complete [secure] man.

Property is a natural right and essential component of freedom in that it gives individuals a sense they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.

Property is a perversity. To see the soil as property is to deform the landscape and to degrade husbandry. The farmer, under the sway of this understanding of property, leads the meanest of lives, seeing nature as only a robber.

Property is that for whose security government is instituted. Government is thus for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.