To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule. — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm an engineer by trade so I've always been interested in engineering and technology but also I've a strong interest in self… — Andy Griffiths Copy Share Image
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The privileged rulers, and everyone… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State...… — Jacques Pierre Brissot Copy Share Image
They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be… — Ferdinand von Mueller Copy Share Image
As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
