Property Quotes · Page 3

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

— Virginia Woolf

You better guard your assets, that is the only property you have

— Mazher (@mazher50

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Our private property must be sacrificed.

— Dolley Madison

This country is not pro-American. It is United States property.

— Juan Bosch

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.

— Adam Smith

I'm a big believer in cash but I'd never buy a property with cash.

— Dereck Chisora

The fetus is the property of the entire society,

— Nicolae Ceausescu

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

— Dixie Lee Ray

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one…

— Heinrich Heine

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

— Oscar Wilde

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

— Walter Lippmann

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

— Hans F. Sennholz

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

— Andy Murray

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are…

— Joss Whedon

Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.

— Clint Smith

Dating means doing a lot of fun things you will never do again if you get married. The fun stops with marriage…

— Dave Barry

As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and…

— Anthony Burgess

They successfully combined piracy and puritanism, which aren't so unlike when you come right down to it. Both had a strong dislike…

— John Steinbeck

“For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation…

— Ron Paul

Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you…

— J. D. Salinger

Animals aren't property, and the law generally finds it acceptable to use and kill animals for human gain, imposing prison terms and…

— Charlotte Laws

The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and…

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Once a man came to me - it was not too long ago - and said that he had given away much…

— Meister Eckhart

For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the…

— Niall Ferguson

Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the…

— Huston Smith

The best and safest way of philosophising seems to be, first to enquire diligently into the properties of things, and to establish…

— Isaac Newton

It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is…

— Ronald J. Sider

The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period…

— John Shelby Spong

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has…

— Oscar Wilde

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

— Calvin Coolidge

“You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.”

— Elizabeth Vaughan

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

— Daniel Webster

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.

— Pietro Aretino

Money is property; it is not speech.

— John Paul Stevens

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

— Ayn Rand

“Go to hell." "I've already been there. I own property in it.”

— Tessa Bailey

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton