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 system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It's much more about the studio… — James Gray Copy Share Image
When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states,… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
NAFTA and GATT are quite similar. They both have highly protectionist elements. They're kind of a mixture of liberalization and protection designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the most important properties of a work of art is an attempt to reconcile opposites, and in… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Let but the public mind become once thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty or life, by mere force of… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six… — Jack Bowman Copy Share Image
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value'… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The best car I ever had was a Mazda 626. I paid $72 for it. The guy told me if I towed… — Forrest Griffin Copy Share Image
People in India like to touch a lot. It's not very nice for any girl to be touched by strangers wherever they… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
I kind of hate to be the voice of doom, but I just can't see how prices can't go down. I think… — Sarah Beeny Copy Share Image
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
But assuming the same premises, to wit, that all men are equal by the law of nature and of nations, the right… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image