Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To this day, at my relatively advanced age, I still don't have a place I can really call home. I've never bought… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
[D]ecade after decade, through taxes and regulations, governments at all levels took ever-increasing control over people's lives, wealth, and property. The control… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up,… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In the midst of all these innumerable forms of a common protest and universal ill-ease there has grown up one definite body… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by… — Harold Laski Copy Share Image
Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Having children, they're not your property. They need to figure out their own views. I think my daughters have a pretty healthy… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Memeticists have to give empirical evidence to support the claim that, in the micro-processes of cultural transmission, elements of culture inherit all… — Dan Sperber Copy Share Image
Anyone who has property that exceed his needs, let him support someone whose property does not (meet his or her needs), and… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,'… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
People are hungering for property — for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image
And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent… — John Shadegg Copy Share Image