Property Quotes · Page 20

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any…

— Murray Rothbard

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

— Francois Rabelais

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

— Francis Bacon

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape,…

— Erik Naggum

MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL…

— Patricia Briggs

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

— Derek Walcott

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

— Alexander Hamilton

When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.

— William Arnot

I'm a libertarian-conservative. I believe the state should focus on defending lives, rights, and property instead of depriving its citizens of their…

— Todd Young

Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about…

— Davy Jones

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a…

— Ricky Williams

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of…

— Roger Nash Baldwin

The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function…

— Louis O. Kelso

The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that…

— Robert Darnton

Those of us who have tested gravity under a hoop know its mystical properties. Robin Layton, as I would have expected, has…

— George Vecsey

We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure…

— Richard Pipes

Women are more than 50% of almost every country in the world. Countries rob themselves of the resources of women if they…

— Madeleine Albright

In most countries, property law means that people can take possession of manuscripts and, in some circumstances, a lone copy of a…

— Michael Rosen

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for…

— Stanislav Grof

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is…

— James Buchan

For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance…

— Lysander Spooner

I am a fierce supporter of domestic-partnership and civil-union laws. I am not a supporter of gay marriage as it has been…

— Barack Obama

From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue,…

— Tom Robbins

The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.

— William Anthony Donohue

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

— James C. Scott

My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my…

— Richard Artschwager

Without effective protection of the citizens' right to property, it will be difficult to attract and accumulate valuable capital.

— Mencius

Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.

— Paul Erdos

As a long-termist, I acknowledge there are more pressing causes than the abolition of private property.

— Ash Sarkar

Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.

— Henry Ward Beecher

When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.

— Beyonce Knowles

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

— Josiah Warren

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

— Murray Rothbard

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

— Donald Trump

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

— William Shakespeare

Women didn't have rights. Under British common law, women were property.

— Noam Chomsky

Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

— Gary Johnson

By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

— Sigmund Freud