Property Quotes · Page 16

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.

— Hans F. Sennholz

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

— Walter Lippmann

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

— Andy Murray

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one…

— Heinrich Heine

It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

— Oscar Wilde

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride.…

— Steven Spielberg

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my…

— Henry David Thoreau

The only thing we need to sustain is the freedom to act on our judgment-which includes the freedom to use our property…

— Craig Biddle

Women have developed the second attention because they were repressed, because they were manipulated, because they were used as property, as chattel,…

— Frederick Lenz

The one thing you can't ever forget - the playing field is the property of the players and the coaches. It is…

— Keith Jackson

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which…

— Aristotle

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin,…

— Arthur Bryant

For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding…

— Franz Kafka

I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. These properties we can only…

— Nikola Tesla

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn…

— Westbrook Pegler

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers…

— Jürgen Moltmann

My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more - because…

— Banksy

One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit;…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

I first had money for investment just at the time of the 2008 crisis and shares have been highly volatile since then.…

— Andy Murray

There is more interest in what is occurring in technology companies that impact news. Such companies don't have the same sense of…

— Tom Rosenstiel

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

— Frederick Douglass

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

— Edwin Land

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

— Lord Acton

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

— John Locke

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

— James Madison

“Being vegan isn't about restricting oneself in any way, it's simply about ceasing to take things which clearly are not ours.”

— Mango Wodzak

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a…

— Thomas Carlyle

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand…

— Esther Forbes

In a knowledge economy, a good business is a community with a purpose, not a piece of property.

— Charles Handy

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

— Jean de la Bruyere

If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff,

— Ronald Breslow

No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up…

— Mark Twain

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

— Andrew Joseph Galambos

Bion insisted on the principle that "The property of friends is common."

— Bion of Borysthenes

The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.

— James Madison