Property Quotes

Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

The fetus is the property of the entire society.

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.

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

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

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

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.

The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

Property is a nuisance.

I further promise you, that all my wealth and property will be in Pakistan. I will take ownership of this country and won't be like those leaders who create hideouts abroad

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

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

Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

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.

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

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.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.

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

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.

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.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

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].

If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow.

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

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

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