Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility… — Allen Johnson Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and… — Plautus Copy Share Image
We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
Terrorism isn't a crime against people or property. It's a crime against our minds, using the death of innocents and destruction of… — Bruce Schneier Copy Share Image
The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back… — Merle Haggard Copy Share Image
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
It is an unfortunate fact that in many parts of the world women are considered property. An awful lot of injustice is… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of… — Mary Decker Copy Share Image
I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels.… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The 'blind trust' is an age-old ruse. You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don't invest… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves… — Sally Wentworth Copy Share Image
Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them… — David Hume Copy Share Image
One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a… — Adrian Cronauer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human… — Paul Starr Copy Share Image
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
