Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as… — Eric Allman Copy Share Image
People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is huge variablitiy… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey… — Banksy Copy Share Image
The 'blind trust' is an age-old ruse. You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don't invest… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
The mechanist is intimately convinced that a precise knowledge of the chemical constitution, structure, and properties of the various organelles of a… — Andre Michel Lwoff Copy Share Image
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels.… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves… — Sally Wentworth Copy Share Image
Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of… — Mary Decker Copy Share Image
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image
In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property,… — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play… — Lita Ford Copy Share Image
It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
We've excused all houses up to $750,000 from our property-purchase tax. We have more to do. There are other measures we intend… — Christy Clark Copy Share Image
Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system.… — Utah Phillips Copy Share Image
So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al-Harb (non Muslims) is not protected.… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming.… — Earl Blumenauer Copy Share Image