Property Quotes · Page 27

I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes.

— Parker Posey

The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means…

— Ludwig von Mises

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

— Ayn Rand

“But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.”

— Alexander Hamilton

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

— Lawrence Lessig

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

— George Washington

Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.

— Russell Kirk

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property.

— Ibrahim Babangida

Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate…

— Richard M. Weaver

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is…

— Samuel Johnson

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property…

— Anonymous

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Children are potentially free and their life directly embodies nothing save potential freedom. Consequently they are not things and cannot be the…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of…

— Carl Paladino

There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land,…

— Aldo Leopold

I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure…

— Barbara Kruger

A democracy flirts with the danger of becoming a slave in direct ratio to the numbers of its citizens who work, but…

— Fulton J. Sheen

And this exclusion of "women's work" continues, despite United Nations data gathered since 1975 (the beginning of the UN Decade for Women)…

— Riane Eisler

There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than…

— Vince Cable

Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole…

— Clarence Darrow

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

It will probably surprise many who know nothing of Proudhon save his declaration that 'property is robbery' to learn that he was…

— Benjamin Tucker

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the…

— Hilaire Belloc

Antiwar protestors actually sabotaged and caused a huge amount of damage to military installations and military property during the war. I'm related…

— Tucker Carlson

The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.

— Charles Sumner

Investing in Chicago property is just Wandas first move into the U.S. real estate market.

— Wang Jianlin

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

— Ryan Shapiro

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

— Pat Conroy

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

— Anonymous

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you choose, Little One... I can own you. You would be my property. mine alone.”

— Tiffany Reisz

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

— Ptolemy

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing…

— Edward Teller

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

— Lewis Black

I consider that I understand an equation when I can predict the properties of its solutions, without actually solving it.

— Paul Dirac

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

— George Carlin

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

— William Greider

Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged…

— Wilfred Bion

I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Its a sad day when a large property owner starts accepting gold instead of the dollar.

— Donald Trump