Top 100 Quotes About Property
#1. Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. The property of the estate owners (pomeshchiks) doesn't belong to any particular detachment, but to the people as a whole. Let the people take what they want.
Maria Nikiforova
#3. The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. Polygamy was common [amongst the Navajo], but women had superior property rights, owning sheep and the houses. A man who deserted his family would be destitute -- a powerful incentive to stay married.
Timothy Egan
#5. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.
Steve Ballmer
#6. Where there is no property there is no injustice.
John Locke
#7. Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.
Jonathan Zittrain
#8. Like the pro-slavery forces who invaded Kansas, the pro-abortion forces in Washington and elsewhere want us to believe that abortion is not murder; that being born is worse than death; that the unborn baby is property, not a person.
Tim Huelskamp
#9. Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights ...
Jeannette Rankin
#10. It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.
Ronald Reagan
#11. Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. The property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10
Chris Hedges
#13. The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.
Feng Zhang
#14. Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
Ambrose Bierce
#15. People have lots of money in super, but they have no money in the bank, and the super funds are not built to help people buy property.
Harry Triguboff
#16. We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.
Vaclav Klaus
#17. Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.
Errol Morris
#18. Am I the next Bill Simmons? I don't think so. I haven't built a media property. He's the best at finding voices he likes and paying people money to work for him.
Katie Nolan
#19. 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.
Walter Savage Landor
#20. Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.
Franz Grillparzer
#21. This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.
Clementa C. Pinckney
#22. Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property.
Carl Sagan
#23. I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.
Edward Teller
#24. Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.
Gore Vidal
#25. An enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.
Benjamin Franklin
#26. I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.
Barack Obama
#27. What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?
Massasoit
#28. The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
#29. [O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#32. You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.
Stefan Molyneux
#33. 1849 - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels present, The Communist Manifesto, declaring "the abolition of private property.
Brian Sussman
#34. The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.
Lewis Henry Morgan
#35. Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.
C.L.R. James
#36. The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.
Michael Parenti
#37. Most people would feel guilty for destroying someone else's property. Yet they wreck the very temple their Creator gifted them.
Brendon Burchard
#38. It is the property of fools to be always judging.
Thomas Fuller
#39. A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.
James Madison
#40. He was not a bad man, he was a good husband and father, but constant worry about his investments, about the money he earned, about the inevitable expenses that came with being a man of property had worn his nerves to a frazzle so that he was in a constant state of irritation
Mario Puzo
#41. Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.
John Adams
#42. We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.
John Adams
#43. So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
William Blackstone
#44. The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.
Ron Paul
#45. We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.
Charles Evans Hughes
#46. All revolutions more or less threaten the tenure of property: but most of those who live in democratic countries are possessed of property - not only are they possessed of property but they live in the condition of men who set the greatest store upon their property.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#47. I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.
Marcia Gay Harden
#48. We create intellectual property on a daily basis, but all of it is not worthy of attention
Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala
#49. And if I see you step foot on my property again, I'll do more than make a phone call, he says, waving the baseball bat around menacingly.
Sarah Darer Littman
#50. New York blacks could not vote unless they owned $250 in property (a qualification not applied to whites).
Howard Zinn
#51. The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
Deborah Tall
#52. I enjoy my John Deere tractor quite a lot. It's a tool that I must use to keep Mother Nature at bay. I have all kinds of things encroaching on my property.
Les Claypool
#53. As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.
Ranbir Kapoor
#54. What we need more than anything, Amy, is each other. I need you, baby. I need you alive and well, in my bed and in my life. The idea of losing you is torture, but I know you aren't my property. You're the woman who changed me in ways I don't even fully understand.
Lisa Renee Jones
#55. The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
James Madison
#56. It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.
Lauren Holly
#57. It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
Oscar Wilde
#58. Abandoned homes become magnets for vandalism and crime. They drag down the property values of neighboring homes.
Eric Schneiderman
#59. I believe that oligarchy follows next in order. And what manner of government do you term oligarchy? A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it. I
Plato
#60. Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.
Wole Soyinka
#61. Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists.
Eric S. Raymond
#62. For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbors, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honors, produces a reign of mere violence.
Polybius
#63. [W]e'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.
George W. Bush
#64. Given that all three of us were Londoners, we paused a moment to carry out the ritual of the "valuation of the property." I guessed that, given the area, it was at least a million and change. "Million and a half, easy," said Carey. "More," said Guleed. "If it's freehold.
Ben Aaronovitch
#65. Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.
Jeff Jarvis
#66. The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
Susan Sontag
#67. If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.
Jefferson Davis
#68. Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
#69. It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves upon the tree long before he sees the tree at all.
John F. Carlson
#70. People sometimes are under the impression that finding their property corners should cost as much as changing their oil or blowing out their sprinklers. What they don't realize is that land surveyors are required to stand behind their work for the rest of their lives.
Mark Mason
#71. In terms of intellectual property, so many of the job creators I know are start-ups. In the IP setting, we can meaningfully improve on the status quo, and in so doing, we can help small businesses, large businesses, and those in between.
Thomas Perez
#72. The British judiciary needs to support intellectual property.
James Dyson
#73. Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles ... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law ... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau
#74. I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. But my bill, the Drill Now Act, would actually expedite the whole process, let the Interior Department move ahead quicker ... it would stop the radical environmental lawyers from delaying for years with frivolous lawsuits the leasing of the property.
Jim DeMint
#76. The only justification of private property," said Orren Boyle, "is public service.
Ayn Rand
#78. The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.
James C. Scott
#79. Pardon me; I must seem to you so stupid! Why is the property of the woman who commits Murder, and the property of the woman who commits Matrimony, dealt with alike by your law?
Frances Power Cobbe
#80. If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society,
Neal Stephenson
#81. There, he thought, was the final abortion of the creed of collective interdependence, the creed of non-identity, non-property, non-fact: the belief that the moral stature of one is at the mercy of the action of another.
Ayn Rand
#82. Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
J.D. Salinger
#83. A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler
#84. And has the truth become the property of those who can afford it?' The
Susanna Kearsley
#85. The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.
C.L.R. James
#86. The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
Thomas Jefferson
#87. For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.
Evan Osnos
#88. We never really own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we're here. It was God's property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die. You just get to enjoy it for a while.
Rick Warren
#89. I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property.
Michael Badnarik
#90. agreements were documents of inequality codified under American law, which had always favored property rights over liberties of the individual. This made any landlord the most important person in his or her tenants' lives, capable of enacting terrible vengeance on the slightest whim.
Jarett Kobek
#91. My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.
Charles Dickens
#92. I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#93. The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].
John S. Mosby
#94. The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.
Herbert Croly
#95. The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.
Abraham Lincoln
#96. Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
Ernest Istook
#97. No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.
Woodrow Wilson
#98. Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#99. Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.
Muhammad
#100. Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands.
Anthony Trollope
