Property Quotes · Page 7

There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth…

— Saint Ambrose

Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of…

— Maurice Kendall

Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which…

— Hilaire Belloc

The definition of winning has become distorted. If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars…

— Dick Ebersol

If you can't afford to give something away, you don't own it, it owns you. If you can't afford to sell it,…

— Rock Cowles

Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes,…

— Robert E. Lee

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

— Mencius

Living apart is hardly possible if people have children together. It can also be more expensive to maintain two homes. But then,…

— Deborah Moggach

Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes…

— Andrew Linzey

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of…

— Thomas Jefferson

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and…

— Rick Perry

We need not concern ourselves much about rights of property if we faithfully observe the rights of persons.

— Calvin Coolidge

Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security…

— James Madison

We can license our intellectual property to new customers and expand agreements with existing ones over time and more.

— Rajeev Suri

Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole…

— Doug Casey

One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something…

— George Carlin

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the…

— Anonymous

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The past is our only real possession in life. It is the one piece of property of which time cannot deprive us;…

— Grace King

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

— Gary L. Francione

Take Milton Friedman, he sits at his desk pontificating about such bunk as the monetary system being the answer to our problems.…

— Louis O. Kelso

[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

[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

— Niccolo Machiavelli