Property Quotes · Page 83

We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property, it doesn't leave…

— Cornel West

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

— James Madison

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

— Willem de Kooning

Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

— Michael Badnarik

Owning pipelines, people, products, or even intellectual property is no longer the key to success. Openness is.

— Jeff Jarvis

The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a…

— Jamie Goode

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on…

— Mira Grant

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.

— Ernest Istook

The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed…

— Andy Stanley

We hold that the ownership of private property is the right and privilege of every American citizen and is one of the…

— John Rarick

One-man-one-vote combined with "free entry" into government-democracy--implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of-and is up for grabs…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

— James Otis

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people,…

— Helen Clark

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

— Aristotle

Donald Trump is having foreign leaders spend their money and our government spend their money on his properties. This is not the…

— Robby Mook

The churches rose to power on the income from tax-free property. What earthly -or heavenly- right have they got to enjoy a…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as…

— Jesse Owens

[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for…

— James Madison

The study of the properties of numbers, Plato tells us, habituates the mind to the contemplation of pure truth, and raises us…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

— Barack Obama

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property. Let him be taught…

— Benjamin Rush

The discoveries of the last couple decades are showing that properties of a self do actually inhere in matter, that matter seems…

— Charles Eisenstein

Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the…

— Hilaire Belloc

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not…

— Thomas Jefferson