He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market. — Wang Jianlin Copy Share Image
I think the freedom to express one's views is more important than intellectual property. — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
“We are accused of being obsessed by property. The truth is the other way round. It is the society and culture in… — John Berger Copy Share Image
This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy -- a dream yet unfulfilled.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
But nobody else ever romped with White Fang. He did not permit it. He stood on his dignity, and when they attempted… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In short, my vision of a responsible free society is one in which we discourage evil, but do not prohibit it. We… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It is more important to know the properties of chlorine than the improprieties of Claudius! — Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell Copy Share Image
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one's property and therefore no one's loss. — George Reisman Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Protection of private property is a fundamental right protected in a strong democracy. — Jim Ryun Copy Share Image
