Property Quotes · Page 26

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

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

— Henry David Thoreau

Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

— Barbara Castle

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

— Lewis Henry Morgan

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

— Cliff Richard

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

— Hilaire Belloc

I realized that I was really tired of people popping on and off of my property like it was a train station…

— Charlaine Harris

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

— Tom Robbins

Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their…

— Anonymous

It is easy to understand that the best deed is well done: and so well as the best deed is done -…

— Julian of Norwich

There exist in the world only two great parties; that of those who prefer to live from the produce of their labor…

— Charles Dunoyer

I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No…

— Henry David Thoreau

Parents always have their own ideas about how they wish their children to be brought up, both morally and spiritually. But they…

— Graham Masterton

No matter how hard it is to raise the capital to do that, do everything in your power to buy every property…

— Joe Mimran

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which…

— Thomas Aquinas

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess…

— William Graham Sumner

We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by…

— PZ Myers

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I tend to go with things people need. Obviously with the barbershop, people will need haircuts regardless of the economy. In a…

— Kamerion Wimbley

One wise decision I made was buying a plot of land with planning permission in Richmond, and building my own five-bedroom home…

— Anthea Turner

For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions -…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is…

— Emily Post

Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to…

— Frederick Douglass

The True conservative seeks to protect the system of private property and free enterprise by correcting such injustices and inequalities as arise…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Income from property is not the reward of waiting, it is the reward of employing a good stockbroker.

— Joan Robinson

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

— Calvin Coolidge

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

— Tony Blair

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

— Robert H. Jackson

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he…

— Henry David Thoreau

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.

— Warren Buffett

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

— James Boswell

“Nonviolence cannot be used successfully to protect special privileges that have been won by violence.”

— David T. Dellinger

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

— Linda Lael Miller

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

— Rod Coronado

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

— Thomas Paine

Sometimes a seller has an emotional attachment to a property that's unrealistic when it translates into reasonable pricing.

— Ryan Serhant

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

— Martin Freeman

Only native male citizens with a wife and children, a property, and a military rank should be allowed to vote and be…

— Varg Vikernes

“Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in…

— Shane Filan