A property of an organism enters into its life (and survival) in many different ways, some more salient than others. But there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Flooding is the costliest and most common cause of property damage, which is why federal flood insurance should be affordable and accessible… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you… — Karen Tei Yamashita Copy Share Image
A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff;… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a… — Susan Quinn Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The really big problem with China is that there are the unfair trade practices, like currency manipulation, illegal export subsidies and the… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number… — Hans Alfred Nieper Copy Share Image
Possession properly has two faces, two aspects: we all have a right to private property, but this is accompanied by our responsibility… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Religion, media and schools tell us to disregard animals, view them as commodities, property and resources, and convince us that animals cannot… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
When it comes to marijuana, I think it's ridiculous to live in a country that espouses freedom, liberty and equality, yet won't… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy… — Jackie Cooper Copy Share Image
People in Eastern Washington should be confident in knowing that the government will not come and seize their property or farm land.… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
While I believe our Constitution allows for State and local governments to execute the power of eminent domain for those purposes that… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded,… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The protection of private property does more than promote market efficiency; it enhances the level of human freedom in the most intimate… — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
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