Property Quotes

An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, c...

It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, ...

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

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery b...

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil...

Mine is better than ours.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex c...

This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning an...

The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches...

...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--i...

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Take one famous example: arguments about property destruction after Seattle. Most of these, I think,...

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a cert...

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law...

Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for proper...

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of ...

What was marriage but sex plus property.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of t...

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Gove...

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his r...

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate yo...

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, bu...

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with ci...

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the wea...

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the ...

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons ...

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can ac...

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact but a legal fiction.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. Bu...

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in...

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for the predation of private property; it re...

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusi...

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, “This is mine; each one by himself, eac...

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religio...

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

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and ...

Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every...

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tend...

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.