Property Quotes · Page 21

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

— Euripides

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give your goods to the poor: Christ. Property is theft - as long as it's not mine: Marx .

— Joseph Goebbels

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

— George Will

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

— Jane Austen

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

— Mihai Eminescu

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

— Maria Edgeworth

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

— Nicolae Ceausescu

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it…

— Dan Glickman

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't…

— Mark Twain

Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty…

— George Washington

It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources…

— Theodore Roosevelt

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain…

— Anton Chekhov

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might…

— Emilio G. Segre

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and…

— Gore Vidal

The information contained in an English sentence or computer software does not derive from the chemistry of the ink or the physics…

— Stephen C. Meyer

There are times when I wouldn't rule violence out. I personally don't like violence at all. But it wasn't until we had…

— Alice Nutter

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy…

— John Lubbock

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military…

— Andrew Jackson

So if the meaning of the Trump brand is being the ultimate boss who has the power because he's so rich, the…

— Naomi Klein

I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a…

— Patrick Cleburne

There is a theme that runs through my work, and that is: the toxic property of keeping secrets.

— Joyce Maynard

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

— Leo Tolstoy

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

— Thomas Jefferson

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

— William Ames

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

— Frederic Bastiat

Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.

— Lawrence Lessig

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

— Karl Marx

[Putin] is a bully. And bullies only understand when we punch them in the nose, but we need to do that economically.

— Kelly Ayotte

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

— Maria Edgeworth

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

— Roger Scruton

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

— Edmund Burke

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

— Ryan Lindley

Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.

— Nell Scovell

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something…

— George Carlin