Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property. — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I put my money in property and I love merchandise; such as Muhammad Ali boxing gloves. It's about stability for the future. — Shayne Ward Copy Share Image
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming… — Rick Doblin Copy Share Image
I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human… — Mirra Alfassa Copy Share Image
Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production.… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in finding out more about the properties of acoustics. — Z'EV Copy Share Image
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation. — James Otis Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties. — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes — George Will Copy Share Image
A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx . — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity. — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets. — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything. — Mihai Eminescu Copy Share Image
No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image