Property Quotes

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

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.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

People lucky enough to live in the vicinity of an industrial hog farm are, with each breath, made keenly aware of the cause of their declining property values.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

Nations are less disposed to make revolutions in proportion as personal property is augmented and distributed among them, and as the number of those possessing it is increased.

SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of devouring the body placed in it.

It's safe to say that the value of the property had shot up considerably and in the end I made a pretty satisfying profit.

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff.

I've always taken risks and bought property well. As journalism wasn't particularly well paid, buying homes and selling them for profit improved my income.

A lot of people live in a property that will one day be part of their pension, and that is true for me too. I have an investment I can sell with ease.

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.

Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.

I often have deer on my property and there's a fox and owls. You're not going to see that in the city.

Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Family is a transitive property.

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station on the supernatural railroad.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out, whoever shot you will take they bullet back! "I believe you have my property!"

I believe you got my property?

I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.

In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We're not losers.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

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.

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Dating means doing a lot of fun things you will never do again if you get married. The fun stops with marriage because you're trying to save money for when you split up your property.

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

You can't force someone to sell property in America.

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

We do not keep security establishments merely to defend property or territory or rights abroad or at sea. We keep the security forces to defend a way of life.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.