Property Quotes · Page 16

I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.

— Howard Berman

All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody’s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the…

— Swami Vivekananda

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

— Deepak Chopra

If you really love property, and buildings, lifestyles and how people live, that's a good reason for going into development.

— Sarah Beeny

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

— William Weld

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

— Zebulon Pike

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We have partnered Highgate to create our first key flagship property in Las Vegas - Oyo Hotels & Casino.

— Ritesh Agarwal

There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but…

— Victoria Woodhull

In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without…

— Ulysses S. Grant

And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the…

— Emma Goldman

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the…

— David Korten

Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death…

— Charles Stross

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his…

— Sheldon Richman

Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that…

— Noah Webster

Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property…

— Rose Wilder Lane

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that's been…

— Jane Espenson

Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for…

— Thomas Paine

If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn…

— George Washington

Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production.…

— Henry Calvert Simons

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

— Robert H. Jackson

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos.

— James Chanos

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

— Pete Seeger

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

— Edward Coke

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or…

— Molly Crabapple

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

— George Bernard Shaw

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

— Scott Walker

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

— Vladimir Lenin

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

— Seth Klarman

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison