Property

"Do you see, my son," he exclaimed, "that madman who with his teeth is biting the nose of the adversary he has overthrown and that other one who is pounding a woman's head with a huge stone?"

"I see them," said Bulloch. "They are creating law; they are founding property; they are establishing the principles of civilisation, the basis of society and the foundations of the State. . . .Thoughout the ages their work will be consecrated by lawyers, and magistrates will confirm it."

—Anatole France.