Property Quotes

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

I think the media has to continually remind itself, and I think we do but sometimes not well enough that we're not just an economic property.

Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not.

Obviously we're celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era, but we're also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It's a bit of mixed emotions.

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss.

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.

We're creating an ownership society in this country, where more Americans than ever will be able to open up their door where they live and say, welcome to my house, welcome to my piece of property.

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the family , she shall deliver to that ,son the whole property which belonged to the ,deceased .

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

Rights give rise to legal claims. Ultimately, the more rights animals are granted, the greater the legal lien exercised on their behalf against the liberty and property of people.

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him.

They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos.

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook.

Many rogue sites exist to make a profit and others are enormously expensive to maintain. If they don't have the resources to continue stealing intellectual property, they'll wither away.

My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use the information therein to successfully invest in property

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

Get arrested. Destroy the property of those who torture animals. Liberate those animals interned in the hellholes our society tolerates.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.