Property Quotes

Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.

People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.

It's a piece of property that, if you're going to have a development out here, you need to have a golf course because you need to take care of the effluent water being created by the development.

Where there's property, there's theft.

There are libertarian values which say private property is the overarching value, the sanctity thereof, and there are egalitarians who say health care should be shared and so on. That's fair enough.

Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.

Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.

Time sanctifies everything; even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.

Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.

The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.

When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.

Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

I have a large standalone workshop on the back of my property where I prototype and build stuff. It's bright, roomy, and has a giant door so it's easy to bring projects in or out.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses. Man has indeed as much right to work as he has to live, to be free, to own property.

Property is only another name for monopoly.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.

Knowledge is a unique kind of property, indeed: you can share it with others, while still possessing it.

Knowledge is very vital in life's transformation and transition

To achieve patent commercialization success, every inventor must think like a business man

[M]an is not an island, he is more like a spaghetti junction.

The most valuable real estate in the universe is inside your soul.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

you will not be master of my body & my property

The emotional trauma of a security breach can sometimes stay with a person for the rest of their lives. This is why the best prevention efforts are important for your family.

There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.

We own the things that claim that we are theirs.

Kill Piracy

We live in a world where value of creativity is measured by commercial success, and copyrights are mere instruments of financial benefit, not creative progress

We create intellectual property on a daily basis, but all of it is not worthy of attention

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible

Nonviolence is supremely the weapon of the dispossessed, the underprivileged, and the egalitarian, not those who are still addicted to private profit, commercial values, and great wealth.