Stephen Fry Quotes

If you claim something, you can own it.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

Property is proper to man.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

I want to feel that I own things.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

Property belongs to man and not man to property.

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

Nope," he whispered, when I tried to tug it away. "Mine now.

There is no such thing as absolute free speech; there are only absolute rights of private property. Speech is circumscribed by private property rights. You may deliver a disquisition in my virtual or actual living room only if I permit you to so do.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.