Property Quotes · Page 25

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

— Jesse Jackson

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

— Samuel Smiles

“Step by step, place became property, property became a mortgage, and mortgages became derivative investments.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

— Michel de Montaigne

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

— Seth Klarman

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

— James Madison

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

— Vladimir Lenin

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the…

— Haile Selassie

Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution…

— James D. Watson

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do…

— Simone Weil

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property,…

— Jim Ryun

It can no longer be maintained that the properties of any one thing in the universe are independent of the existence or…

— Lee Smolin

We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play…

— Lita Ford

“In a capitalist society there are always inequalities of class and wealth. People who inherit money and property will always see themselves…

— Sally Wentworth

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which…

— Teresa of Avila

In keeping with original Mormon teachings, much of the property in Hildale and Colorado City is held in trust for the church.…

— Scott Anderson

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can…

— Mitch Kapor

[James] Madison pointed out in the discussion of the constitutional debates - the constitutional convention - that democracy would be a danger.…

— Noam Chomsky

“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man…

— Winston Churchill

The law is the collective organization of the individual's right to lawful defense of his life, liberty and property. When it is…

— Frederic Bastiat

In every Indigenous community I've been in, they absolutely do want community infrastructure and they do want development, but they want it…

— Rebecca Adamson

The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…

— William James

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

— Scott Walker

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

— George Bernard Shaw

I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or…

— Molly Crabapple

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

— Pete Seeger

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

— Edward Coke

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Chinais a world class if not the world class property bubble, primarily high-rise buildings, offices and condos.

— James Chanos

As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

— Robert H. Jackson

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

— George Bernard Shaw

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— Ritesh Agarwal

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

— James Madison

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

— Zebulon Pike

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

— William Weld