quotes about Property
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Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
-- Adam SmithSource : Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations”, Xist Publishing
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It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
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[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.
-- Andrew Joseph Galambos -
I will always recommend Goodwin & Thyne Properties to all my friends and business associates, thank you for going over and beyond the call of duty!
-- Andy Romano -
Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
-- Ayn Rand -
Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
-- Barry Lyga -
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Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common.
-- Bion of BorysthenesSource : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Book IV, 53,
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Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.
-- Cathy McMorris Rodgers -
The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
-- Charles Fort -
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Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
-- Charles Lamb -
This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.
-- Cliff Richard -
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The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
-- Dmitri Mendeleev -
You can't force someone to sell property in America,
-- Donald SterlingSource : "In recording said to be of Clippers' Sterling, racist claim denied" by Jason Hanna, Steve Almasy, www.cnn.com. May 8, 2014.
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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.
-- Doug Casey -
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another
-- Edward Coke -
I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
-- Emmeline Pankhurst -
I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.
-- Evangelos Venizelos -
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
-- Ezra Stiles -
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If I am a thief, it's because of private property.
-- Facundo Cabral -
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.
-- Frederic Bastiat -
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
-- Friedrich Engels -
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Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.
-- Gertrude the Great -
Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.
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Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference.
-- Hans-Hermann HoppeSource : Hans-Hermann Hoppe (2011). “DemocracyThe God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy, and Natural Order”, p.217, Transaction Publishers
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
-- James Madison -
National honor is national property of the highest value.
-- James MonroeSource : James Monroe (199?). “The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823”
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Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.
-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke -
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
-- Jean de la Bruyere -
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
-- Jean-Luc Godard -
She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.
-- Jerry Reed -
Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.
-- John BercowSource : "John Bercow dismisses Daily Mail as a 'bigoted comic'" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2011.
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Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
-- John C. Calhoun -
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it
-- Karl Marx -
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
-- Lawrence Lessig -
The continued existence of society depends upon private property.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
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Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.
-- Max Stirner -
My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.
-- Max StirnerSource : Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.166, Cambridge University Press
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You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'
-- Neal Boortz -
No freedom is secure if your property rights are not secure.
-- Neal Boortz -
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The fetus is the property of the entire society,
-- Nicolae Ceausescu -
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
-- Norman O. BrownSource : Norman O. Brown (1990). “Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition”, p.145, Univ of California Press
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We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
-- Paddy Ashdown -
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AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon -
Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.
-- Pietro AretinoSource : Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
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Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
-- Pope Leo XIII -
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Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.
-- Richard J. Maybury -
You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.
-- Russel HonoreSource : "Honore: Sandbags won't save your life", www.cnn.com. March 27, 2009.
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There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.
-- Ryan LindleySource : In re Tyler, Tyler v. Tyler (1891), L. R. 3 C. D. [1891], p. 258,
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If it's in the bin, it's public property.
-- Sophie Kinsella -
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It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.
-- St. Catherine of Siena -
The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
-- Willem de Kooning -
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
-- William Ames -
Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
-- William H. Wharton -
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Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
-- William Murray, 1st Earl of MansfieldSource : "Goodtitle v. Duke of Chandos" (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV., p. 1076 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 210-212), 1904.
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Property is only another name for monopoly.
-- William Stanley JevonsSource : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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So government acts as a safeguard of our property.
-- William Weld -
Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property.
-- Nancy Leveson -
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Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can.
-- Unknown -
Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.
-- William G. Kline -
I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics.
-- Z'EV -
All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.
-- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de LauneSource : "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 39), 1766.
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A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.
-- Prince Hassan bin Talal -
Women ten years ago were much more of the household property than is the case now. It's not to say that if you go backcountry you don't also find that. And there's a tremendous education campaign that is needed to apprise women of their rights.
-- Swanee HuntSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.
-- John Pugsley