They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

But philosophers dislike property as property; they wish to destroy the very idea of personal possession.

Bigamists respect marriage, or they would not go through the highly ceremonial and even ritualistic formality of bigamy.

But philosophers despise marriage as marriage.
Murderers respect human life; they merely wish to attain a greater fulness of human life in themselves by the sacrifice of what seems to them to be lesser lives.

But philosophers hate life itself, their own as much as other people's." Syme struck his hands together.
"How true that is," he cried.