Property Quotes · Page 17

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and mortgages became derivative investments.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

— Samuel Smiles

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

— Jesse Jackson

Trees will improve property values, take pollutants out of the air, help with water runoff.

— Michael Bloomberg

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

— Edward Gibbon

We believe in defending everyone's lives. We believe in defending everyone's property.

— Javier Milei

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming…

— Rick Doblin

I have an admiration, even though I'm not likely to do that sort of thing myself, for [Ayn] Roark's behavior when he…

— Murray Bookchin

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,…

— Joseph Stalin

There should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as its sole property, a place where all human…

— Mirra Alfassa

Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

People have a right to protest; they have a right to make their opinion. They can be very upset about what they…

— Rudy Giuliani

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and…

— Henry George

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught…

— Benjamin Rush

Most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other…

— Charles Francis Richter

If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless…

— Richard Dawkins

SystemC AMS provides a great modeling and simulation framework for integrated heterogeneous systems. The SystemC AMS 2.0 standard brings new capabilities for…

— Frank Oppenheimer

American society [...] not only sanctions gross and unfair relations among men, but it encourages them. Now, can that be denied? No.…

— Philip Roth

It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our…

— James Madison

“Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ‘abolition of private property’ which took place in…

— George Orwell

Mathematics is not only real, but it is the only reality. That is that entire universe is made of matter, obviously. And…

— Martin Gardner

The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism…

— Jerry Fodor

Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

— James Madison

I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be…

— Jeff Mills

“It is worth noting that honoring private property rights protects not just the rich; it especially protects the poor.”

— Helen Raleigh

Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

— Rusty Schweickart

Content zips around the Internet thanks to code - programming code. And code is subject to intellectual property laws.

— Jonathan Zittrain

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for…

— Dennis Rodman

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

— George Eliot

Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights. . . .

— Jeannette Rankin

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

— Niels Bohr

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

— Hilaire Belloc

[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.

— Nick Jonas

The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

— Anonymous

Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

— Steven Popkes

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

— Calvin Trillin

You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

— Matthew Desmond