Property Quotes

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.'

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Dear Mr. Kuhn, After twelve years in the major leagues, I do not feel that I am a piece of property to be bought and sold irrespective of my wishes

Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

As people seek to improve their living environment, there will be continuous demand for residential property. Investment in real estate market should have reasonable prospects in the long run.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, but enlightens all human beings.

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship, and support.

[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.

Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.