"Some French socialist said that private property was theft … I say that private property is a nuisance."
— Paul Erdős

January 1, 1970

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Referring to a famous statement by the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon that "Property is theft!", as quoted in The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (1998) by Paul Hoffman, p. 7