That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To wrest the wealth of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The effect of the corporation, under the prevailing policy of the free, go-as-you-please method of organization and management, has been to drive… — Peter S. Grosscup Copy Share Image
One wonders, in fact, why marriage is a legal issue at all - apart from its relevance to immigration and property laws.… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
The degree of confirmation assigned to any given hypothesis is sensitive to properties of the entire belief system... simplicity, plausibility, and conservatism… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
It should be remembered that the foundation of the social contract is property; and its first condition, that every one should be… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote.… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I know of no other country where love of money has such a grip on men's hearts or where stronger scorn is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there… — John Adams Copy Share Image
