 | Jeremy Rifkin - Business & Economics - 2004 - 449 pages
...in 1755, wrote: The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human... | |
 | Deidre Dawson, Pierre Morère - History - 2004 - 356 pages
...true inequality: The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human... | |
 | John Schrems - Political Science - 2004 - 408 pages
...private property: The first person who, having fenced off a plot of ground, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, war, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human... | |
 | Regis Debray - Religion - 2004 - 330 pages
...that god. 'The first,' said Rousseau, 'who having enclosed a plot of land took it upon himself to say: this is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.' And by virtue of the simple act of enclosing itself, that society ceased... | |
 | Mary Neuburger - History - 2004 - 252 pages
...famous words: "The first person who, having fenced off a plot of ground, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human... | |
 | Richard W. Bulliet - History - 2005 - 276 pages
...Jacques Rousseau, in "A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality," wrote: The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This...real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling... | |
 | Jodi O'Brien - Psychology - 2006 - 586 pages
...will certainly determine the kind of social order we shall have. The first man who, having endosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying "This...enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.12 We transform the natural world into a social one by carving out of it mental chunks we then... | |
 | Neil Baldwin - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 270 pages
...Rousseau's claim in the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences ( 1 750) that "the first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'This...enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society."24 It is not as difficult to determine why Karl Marx receives such short shrift in Henry George's... | |
 | Michael Head, Scott Mann - Law - 2005 - 434 pages
...destroys man's humanity and enslaves him. The first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying, 'This is mine', and found people simple...believe him was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, how many miseries and horrors might the human race have been spared... | |
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THE first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. 
