“Property was thus appall’d / That the self was not the same / Single nature’s double name / Neither two nor one… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development--the thesis; property, the reverse of communism, is the second… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
We want to have trade agreements that give us a level playing field, get other countries to respect the rule of law,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The person and society are yoked, like mind and body. Arguing which is more important is like debating whether oxygen or hydrogen… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
What I do know is, in little more than 30 years, we have gone from a nation where the “quiet enjoyment” of… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
“Formal property’s contribution to mankind is not the protection of ownership; squatters, housing organizations, mafias, and even primitive tribes manage to protect… — Hernando de Soto Copy Share Image
Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should… — Canvass White Copy Share Image
I submit that the Government exists to provide for the needs of the people, and when it comes to choice between profits… — J. S. Woodsworth Copy Share Image
So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. — George Reisman Copy Share Image
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius! — Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell Copy Share Image
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
'The Book of Air and Shadows' was born during a conference with an intellectual property lawyer on a particular afternoon in November… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy. — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand… — Esther Forbes Copy Share Image
In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property. — Charles Handy Copy Share Image