The continued existence of society depends upon private property. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes. — Gertrude the Great Copy Share Image
All political spendings for purposes beyond the protection of life and property are a snare and a delusion. — Percy L. Greaves, Jr Copy Share Image
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated. — Francois Quesnay Copy Share Image
Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will… — Wolfe Tone Copy Share Image
There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The mere toleration of the slave trade could not make slavery itself - the right of property in man - lawful any… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing abilities of sexuality is to momentarily transcend the borders of Self into something that is no longer… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base… — Walter Block Copy Share Image
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The greatest intensification of the horrors of war is a direct result of the democratisation of the State. So long as the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
Faced with such insecurity, labor unions seek a solution in demands for higher wages, shorter hours, pensions, and such things. But this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all… — Elizabeth Blackwell Copy Share Image
Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of different houses over the years, and I think the most important part of any home is the… — Bryan Baeumler Copy Share Image
I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image