Property Quotes · Page 17

[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.

— Abraham Lincoln

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband…

— Kate Millett

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

— Russel Honore

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

— George Washington

Those who cannot afford to sue currently have no protection of their property rights if they come in conflict with a regulation.

— Steve Symms

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

— Henry Bonilla

Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.

— Abraham Lincoln

I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object…

— Richard Branson

I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never…

— Francois Rabelais

Younger people - not just older people - holding this basic underlying attitude that's suggested there that women aren't worth much, that…

— Steve Inskeep

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

You owe me!" -Stephanie "Why do I owe you?" -Joe "I caught your no good cousin." -Stephanie "Yeah and in the process…

— Janet Evanovich

Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the…

— Hazel Henderson

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the…

— William Howard Taft

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as…

— Eric Allman

I look in a right of property - on the right of individuals, to have and to own, for their own separate…

— Thomas Hodgskin

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time,…

— Alexander Hamilton

That the role of size has been to some degree neglected in biology may lie in its simplicity. Size may be a…

— John Tyler Bonner

No mathematician in the world would bother making these senseless distinctions: 2 1/2 is a "mixed number " while 5/2 is an…

— Paul Lockhart

Once we see, however, that the probability of life originating at random is so utterly minuscule as to make it absurd, it…

— Fred Hoyle

The libertarian sees the State as a giant gang of organized criminals, who live off the theft called "taxation" and use the…

— Murray Rothbard

Animals are not resources or property with whom we can do what we please, their lives matter very much, and they should…

— Marc Bekoff

If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who…

— Aristotle

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

— Max Stirner

“Property was thus appall’d / That the self was not the same / Single nature’s double name / Neither two nor one…

— Michael Oakeshott

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

— Errol Morris

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his…

— Samuel Butler

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

— Gore Vidal

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

— Aristotle

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

— Honore de Balzac

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or…

— Jack Kevorkian

The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America.

— Johan Huizinga

I bought properties inexpensively and made a lot of money. I began to think it was easy.

— Donald Trump

Imperfect communities show that being a maximal resemblance class is not sufficient for being a property.

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

— James Otis

Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.

— Brian Greene

Why don't those damn oil companies fly their own flags on their personal property-maybe a flag with a gas pump on it.

— Smedley Butler

Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.

— Marco Arment