the real civil society

The first man who, having fenced off a plot of land, thought of saying "This is mine" and found people simple enough to believe him was the real founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murder, how many miseries and horrors might the human race have been spared by the one who, upon pulling up the stakes of filling in the ditches, had shouted to his fellow men,..."the fruits of the Earth belong to all."
--Jean Jaques Rousseau