Where there is no property there is no injustice.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that property ownership is essential to define what is just or unjust in society.
John Locke's assertion that 'where there is no property there is no injustice' emphasizes the role of private ownership in the establishment of rights and justice. Without property, there are no personal claims or interests to violate, implying that the existence of property defines the parameters of justice and injustice in human interactions. This highlights Locke's belief in the connection between individual rights and the protection of personal possessions.
In practice
In a debate about economic systems, one could use this quote to argue the importance of property rights.
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsiderβs measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.
I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both in body and soul. My chains, which I carry about on me for Jesus Christ, begging that I may happily make my way to God, exhort you: persevere in your concord and in you community prayers.
Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.
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