Fernando Pessoa Quotes

All property is theft, except mine.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

Property is proper to man.

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

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

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

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

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

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

Property is a nuisance.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

The law may do what it will with the owner of property, its just power will still attach to the cent.

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

Every man has a right by nature to possess property as his own.

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.