Property Quotes · Page 22

We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.

— David Abram

I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property.

— Shepard Fairey

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.

— Nick Szabo

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Wang Jianlin

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.

— Ludwig von Mises

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

— Aristotle

I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party…

— Gore Vidal

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and…

— Rick Perry

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and…

— Henry George

People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they…

— Rudy Giuliani

Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and…

— Ronald Reagan

To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the…

— Russell Kirk

So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now…

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has…

— Isabel Paterson

The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of…

— Ayn Rand

Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce…

— William Alcott

Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and…

— Ron Paul

Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be…

— Murray Rothbard

We don't believe it's possible to protect digital content. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the…

— Steve Jobs

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

— Stephen Hawking

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

— John Updike

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something…

— George Carlin

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

— Ryan Lindley

Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.

— Nell Scovell

Give the vote to the people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able…

— Gouverneur Morris

The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

— Alexander Shulgin

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

— Linus Torvalds

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

— Lord Acton

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

— Joan Rivers

In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property.

— Alvin Francis Poussaint

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

— Winston Churchill

Everyday life invents itself by poaching in countless ways on the property of others.

— Michel de Certeau

My father owned a small piece of land. He carried it with him wherever he went.

— Woody Allen

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

— Terence McKenna