The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
Acts themselves alone are history, and these are neither the exclusive property of Hume, Gibbon nor Voltaire, Echard, Rapin, Plutarch, nor Herodotus.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is important to distinguish the difficulty of describing and learning a piece of notation from the difficulty of mastering its implications.… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
“Property is no longer about power, personality and command. It's not about vulgar display or tasteful display. Because it no longer has… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Fir : it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime… Criminals have their own responsibility, their… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is nothing as dreamy and poetic, nothing as radical, subversive, and psychedelic, as mathematics. It is every bit as mind blowing… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform… — Vladimir Vernadsky Copy Share Image
The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Books of natural history aim commonly to be hasty schedules, or inventories of God's property, by some clerk. They do not in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands… — John Adams Copy Share Image
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Can you find out how owns C and R industries? They bought the old abandoned mental asylum downtown." "That old thing? What… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
'Truly, truly, I tell you, if you ask anything of the Father in My Name, He will give it to you. Till… — Ignatius Bryanchaninov Copy Share Image
You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection… — George Washington Copy Share Image
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital... is now to be lost, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Ownership by delegation is a contradiction in terms. When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of… — Cato the Younger Copy Share Image
Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its… — IU?. I. Manin Copy Share Image
For the first time, I wasn't embarrassed by the look of beauty, of elegance, because when you see someone who has only… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
The only test of possession is use. The talent that is buried is not owned. The napkin and the hole in the… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image