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“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

“Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.”

Writing Life Is Purpose Mankind Divinity Sole Tablets Engrave

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.”

Ideas Religion Literature Atheism Mankind Forgiving Sole

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”

Humans Talking Mankind Privilege Nonsense Sole Organisms Talking Nonsense

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky