3 Benjamin Tucker Quotes on Property

Benjamin Tucker quotes on property

5. To the individual can belong only the products to be consumed, not the means of producing them. A man may own his clothes and his food, but not the sewing-machine which makes his shirts or the spade which digs his potatoes.

6. Product and capital are essentially different things; the former belongs to individuals, the latter to society.

45. To secure ourselves in this use, each contracts, or will ultimately contract, with his fellows not to encroach upon those portions of the earth which they are actually using, in return for their agreement not to encroach upon that portion of the earth which he is actually using.