Own Property Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children…
— Isabel Allende
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in their own behalf,…
— Thomas Paine
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You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses…
— Michelangelo
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Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying…
— Gary Steiner
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It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etc., if I may not keep my body, and its…
— Lucy Stone
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So use your own property as not to injure that of another
— Edward Coke
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Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the…
— Margaret Thatcher
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More than one-third of Mexicans in the United States own property in Mexico, nearly 80 percent send money home and 25 percent have a spouse…
— John Shadegg
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What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from others. Here is…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing. They always want to have the air of knowing better than you what…
— Eugene Delacroix
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I do have two data identities. I have my name, Bruce Sterling, which is my public name under which I write novels. I also have…
— Bruce Sterling
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I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.
— J. Michael Straczynski
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It's unfortunate that we see a great many women settling. They think that simply because they have gotten the right to vote, own property and…
— Frederick Lenz
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People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped…
— Henry Louis Gates
Who Wrote These Own Property Quotes
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