All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public. — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together. — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property. — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance. — Paul Erdos Copy Share Image
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance. — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting; or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I… — Sela Ward Copy Share Image
We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Japanese army is now prepared to use every means within its power to subdue its opponents. The objectives of the Japanese… — Iwane Matsui Copy Share Image
The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
When I reached Fort Binjemma, for example, where my grandfather was stationed for a while, the whole Victorian fort was decaying. Barbed… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The great blessing of private property, then, is that people can benefit from their own industry and insulate themselves from the negative… — Tom Bethell Copy Share Image
The corruption of freedom is in proportion to the moral deterioration of the people. For a people who have lost their sense… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
The first piece of property that I bought was in Tuscany in 1973. — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image