Collective Property Quotes

Art belongs to the people.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

Music is everybody's possession.

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

Nature offers nothing that can be called this man's rather than another’s, but under nature everything belongs to all

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Human health should now be thought of as a collective property of the human-associate d microbiota, as one group of researchers recently concluded in a landmark review article on microbial ecology - that is, as a function of the community, not the individual.

Collective property and individual property, these two banners will be the standards under which, from now on, the great battles of the future will be fought.

… those things to be held in common which cannot be divided

I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.

It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Moslems or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, well or happy, this earth is ours...not somebody else's...it is not only the rich man's earth, but our earth...yours and mine.

As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

Every acre of forest should belong to the people.