Property Quotes · Page 12

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

— Francois Rabelais

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any…

— Murray Rothbard

"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on…

— Anonymous

You know you're rich when you have to drive for a half hour to get to your house once you're on your…

— Chris Rock

The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.

— Rousas John Rushdoony

I think people think I spend loads but I very rarely treat myself. I could splash out on lots of things but…

— Amy Childs

She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

— Jerry Reed

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

— Thomas Carlyle

Property is the foundation of every right we have, including the right to be free. Every legal claim, after all, is a…

— Roger Pilon

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other…

— Isaac Newton

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe…

— James Buchan

But please know, whether you believe campaign contributions are speech or property, that I learned to love very dearly the right of…

— John McCain

Overseas investors have a choice. They can buy property, equities, bonds, or a host of other assets either in the United Kingdom…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of…

— Ayn Rand

Last Thursday, our Supreme Court backed that local governments can co-opt private property, and give it to another private entity, for economic…

— Cliff Stearns

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united…

— Daniel Guerin

Wealth brings with it its own checks and balances. The basis of political economy is noninterference. The only safe rule is found…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the copulative kai ['and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal…

— Granville Sharp

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I decided that if nobody else was going to do anything to rectify this colossal inequity in taxation, I'd have to do…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of…

— Alex Kozinski

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less…

— Jerry Gillies

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

— Dmitri Mendeleev

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in…

— James Madison

Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

— Harvey V. Fineberg

The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

— Publilius Syrus

“Humans are like an ever flowing river of fresh water. We stagnate if we stop progressing.”

— Arshad Wahedna

History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

— Voltaire

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

— Thomas Paine

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

— Mark Twain

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on…

— Thomas Jefferson

When you become a professional wrestler, your name becomes company property.

— Bill Goldberg

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

— Hannah Arendt

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.

— Karl Marx

Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

— Abraham Lincoln

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

— Neal Boortz