Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn't rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to… — Alan Chambers 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
Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have a large standalone workshop on the back of my property where I prototype and build stuff. It's bright, roomy, and… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
We want to have trade agreements that give us a level playing field, get other countries to respect the rule of law,… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I rather incline towards 'conceptualism', in line with my view of colour perception - I don't think that we can represent objects… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election. — Robert H. Jackson 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
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
Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind. — John Adams Copy Share Image
"My door is always open - bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use… — Jason Lee Copy Share Image
Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Of the properties of mathematics, as a language, the most peculiar one is that by playing formal games with an input mathematical… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements. — Mike Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their… — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro... to catch whatever it is that's… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image