“We should not overestimate the extent of the diffusion of ownership that has taken place over the past two centuries: the egalitarian ownership society—or even, more modestly, a society in which the poorest half of the population owns more than a token share of the wealth—has yet to be invented.”
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“Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags.”
“Childhood and innocence are only synonymous to the privileged.”
“Luck is what decides whose name gets written in gold, and whose page is torn out before it begins.”