Property Quotes

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property .

In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

You can never really own real estate for instance; if you think you can, just try not paying your property taxes for a few years.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

I haven't seen a bear in person. I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

Before you start trying to work out which direction the property market is headed, you should be aware that there are markets within markets.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

The flute is traditionally the property of the male side of matrilineal hunter-gatherer societies and was used as a means of communication and personal expression.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

The best ideas are common property.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

Stealing music is not right, and I can understand people being very upset about their intellectual property being stolen.

All property is theft, except mine.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.