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“Property is the foundation of every right we have, including the right to be free. Every legal claim, after all, is a claim to something-either a defensive claim to keep what one is holding or an offensive claim to something someone else is holding.”

Claims Foundation Property Including Offensive

Author:Roger Pilon

“There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe. And yet there are very few, that will give themselves the trouble to consider the original and foundation of this right.”

Source: The Oxford Edition of Blackstone's: Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book II: Of the Rights of Things

“The Council of the Union of Democratic Control re-affirms its unshaken conviction that a lasting settlement cannot be secured by a peace based upon the right of conquest and followed by commercial war, but only by a peace which gives just consideration to the claims of nationality, and which lays the foundation of a real European partnership.”

Giving War Real Claims Foundation Lays Unions Democratic Conviction Consideration Lasting Partnership Conquest Council Nationality Settlement Secured

Author:Norman Angell

“Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' they think they are referring above and beyond themselves... Nevertheless... such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction... and any deeper meaning is illusory...”

“Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.”

Wells Looks Jobs Keys Dad Claims Foundation Library Obvious Math Founders Librarian Glamorous

Book:Have Space Suit, Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit, Will Travel

“Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.”

Care Opposites Abuse Claims Foundation Neglect Affirmation Humiliation Foundation Of Love

Author:Bell Hooks