People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.
There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.
Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.
There is something permanent, and something extremely profound, in owning a home.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.