Property Quotes · Page 15

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

— Dixie Lee Ray

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

— Thomas Piketty

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we…

— John Pugsley

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Aristotle

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

— Anonymous

There's a difference between buying a few places yourself and getting into the property game.

— Louis Walsh

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

— Joseph O'Neill

The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize…

— Ludwig von Mises

If you're a Mexican citizen whether you live in a shanty shack or the big palace on the beach, when you turn…

— Jesse Ventura

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing…

— Joseph Joubert

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property,…

— Alexander Pope

Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise…

— James Madison

I work with many high net-worth individuals who work with me to buy and sell property in Manhattan, the Hamptons, and Los…

— Ryan Serhant

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must…

— Dolley Madison

I'm required to do every job well enough that I'd use it as evidence in court - that doesn't come cheaply! Property…

— Mark Mason

For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries,…

— Adolf Hitler

Certain functions appear so often that it is convenient to give them names. These are collectively called special functions. There are many…

— Richard Askey

Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of…

— Russell L. Ackoff

It is for the State to take care that the economic conditions are such that the normal man who is not defective…

— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

You cannot know, should I discribe to you; the feelings of a parent . . . . Four years have already past…

— Abigail Adams

Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own…

— Karl Marx

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

— Linus Pauling

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor.

— John Galt

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you…

— Chuck Palahniuk

The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

— William Blackstone

The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land.

— John Adams

Who pays property taxes? We all do, either directly in property tax bills or through higher rents and other costs.

— Michelle Steel

China is stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods.

— Mitt Romney

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

— Rajeev Suri

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

— Euripides

Possession of territory is not primarily about laws and contracts, but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation.

— Paul Virilio

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles

— Kelley Armstrong

I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of…

— James Boswell

But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

— Woodrow Wilson

Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe