In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies, languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ...… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word,… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man's individual possession and property by his own free action; and… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
If one were to ask. . ."What is slavery?" and I should answer in one word, "murder," my meaning would be understood… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
A word is all it takes to put a man in prison, or to seize his property, or to end his life.… — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a… — Susan Quinn Copy Share Image
[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number… — Hans Alfred Nieper Copy Share Image
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What I've done for the last ten years is develop high profile entertainment properties for animation, so it's kind of funny to… — Eric Wight Copy Share Image
The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it, neither our free enterprise system nor our… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
Food that is necessary for man’s existence is as sacred as life itself. Everything that is indispensable for its preservation is the… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
It is only when people can feel that their lives and the property which their industry has produced today will continue to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Easements A landlord may grant another party the right to access or transit its property in certain limited circumstances. These rights are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
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