Property Quotes

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.

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

Truth is not private property.

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Property is organized robbery.

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

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak.

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

Inclusive economic institutions require secure property rights and economic opportunities not just for the elite but for a broad cross-section of society.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

Our private property must be sacrificed.

I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

The English language is nobody's special property.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself.

I know of no case in which you are to have a judicial proceeding, by which a man is to be deprived of any part of his property, without his having an opportunity of being heard.

A lot of people don't think much about what land surveyors do. In a nutshell, we are the interpreters and providers of landmarks and records that directly impact real property.

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the property either of their parents or others.