It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment

Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood’s forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth… Rousseau said that the first person who wanted a piece of nature as his or her own exclusive possession and transformed it into the transcendent form of private property was the one who invented evil. Good, on the contrary, is what is common.

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.

Our private property must be sacrificed.