True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“Given an area of law that legislators were happy to hand over to the affected industries and a technology that was both… — James Boyle Copy Share Image
The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access… — Megan McArdle Copy Share Image
I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Human beings are not property. On the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, let us reaffirm the inherent dignity of all… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It is clear that the main tenet of socialism, community of goods, must be utterly rejected, since it only injures those whom… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I think intellectual property is more like land, and copyright violation is more like trespass. Even though you don't take anything away… — Brad Templeton Copy Share Image
From the time I entered cabinet, the emphasis was on reforms, but reforms which did not abolish separate development, but reforms which… — Frederik Willem de Klerk Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book,… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Every time a colony wants independence, the questions on the agenda are: a) how do you get the imperialists out, and b)… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the… — David Lammy Copy Share Image
Scientific theories never dictate human values, but they can often cast new light on ethical issues. From a sexual selection viewpoint, moral… — Geoffrey Miller Copy Share Image
If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
“Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes,… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body;… — William Cowper Brann Copy Share Image
The obsession with gold, actually and politically, occurs among those who regard economics as a branch of morality. Gold is solid, gold… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
If we allow our one-and-a-half year old to "help" us fold laundry he will learn something about buttons, zippers, snaps, where things… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
A lot of people do get stuck on the idea that they can't pour energy into something unless they own it. Given… — David Holmgren Copy Share Image
It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices.… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
