Property Quotes · Page 30

There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy…

— Oprah Winfrey

Until lawmakers can disentangle property taxes from public education, inequalities - perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Congress - will persist.

— Clint Smith

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

— James Madison

Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands…

— John Adams

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

— Edmund Burke

In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of…

— William Butler Yeats

Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what…

— Neal A. Maxwell

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

— Nicolae Ceausescu

[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He…

— John Steinbeck

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say…

— Michael Kinsley

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property,…

— Jim Ryun

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

— Hannah Arendt

Anyone who would ever think of using any other Realtor would be making an enormous mistake. Goodwin & Thyne Properties is the…

— Andy Romano

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn…

— Westbrook Pegler

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.

— Fanny Brice

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end…

— Jim Horning

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

— Rose Wilder Lane

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

— Ivo Andric

A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender…

— Lysander Spooner

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

— Linus Torvalds

Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism…

— Hilaire Belloc

So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist?…

— Ellen DeGeneres

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

— Adam Michnik

360 deals are the new things of the industry. It's not about selling records; it's about selling T-shirts, getting a piece of…

— Lupe Fiasco