SARCOPHAGUS, n. Among the Greeks a coffin which being made of a certain kind of carnivorous stone, had the peculiar property of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
When government taxes and regulates, what is seen are the visible effects of government contracts, grants, and subsidies. What is not seen… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Communism is not only a national belief but it implies the giving up of real property especially of landed property, and the… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
Between married persons, the cement of friendship is by the laws supposed so strong as to abolish all division of possessions: andhas… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I actually do my own renovations. I designed and built a 100-foot split-cedar rail fence to enclose my property. It was one… — Jeffrey Donovan Copy Share Image
It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In engineering, as in other creative arts, we must learn to do analysis to support our efforts in synthesis. One cannot build… — Gerald Jay Sussman Copy Share Image
Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The veil deliberately marks women as private and restricted property, nonpersons. The veil sets women apart from men and apart from the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human… — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Certainly people in empty places feel they have the right to do what they want to their property and don't necessarily see… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
When you own an apartment in NewYork, it's important to know what's happening in your building. Each building runs as its own… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
- What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too,… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
The fifth amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees that no private property shall be taken for a public use without the payment… — Elton Gallegly Copy Share Image
In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property.… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
If the widow of a man who died without leaving issue, raises up to him a son by a member of the… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it… — William James Copy Share Image
The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique,… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
We stand for the maintenance of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
![“[Property] is a brilliant, chillingly revelatory piece of fiction, a work of craft, economy and such good merciless observation-one of those rare, crucial novels illuminating a history we think we know and understand so that after we've read it we'll never forget its truths.” quote by Ali Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/77d/ali-smith-1801_books_property-is-a-brilliant-chillingly-revel_218754.jpg)
![“The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!” quote by Fanny Burney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d6b/fanny-burney-7403_boast_the-laws-of-custom-make-our-returning-a_580819.jpg)
![“[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.” quote by Harry Stack Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c90/harry-stack-sullivan-27472_adversity_o-ne-of-the-greatest-difficulties-encoun_2365397.jpg)
