Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down… — Tamara Mellon Copy Share Image
There exist in the world only two great parties; that of those who prefer to live from the produce of their labor… — Charles Dunoyer Copy Share Image
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment. — Muhammad Copy Share Image
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
[Jew] didn't believe anything good could come out of a Jewish study. So, what has happened is anti-Semitism has cost the Jews… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content. — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Someone said, and rightfully, that "property is theft'." There's no way a man can stand and tell me that he owns an… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties… — Lee Labrada Copy Share Image
I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly. — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty… — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image