Property Quotes

1480 Property quotes by 948 unique authors

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names. — Gloria Allred
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties. — William Ames
Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here. — George Carlin
Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers, or… — Robert E. Lee
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he… — Huldrych Zwingli
I have never watched property programmes. I watch Property Ladder, because I feel it's very rude for a director to work very hard on a… — Sarah Beeny
We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force… — PZ Myers
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
War takes people's lives and destroys property, but it does not resolve the world's problems. If anything is achieved through war, it is to plant… — Unknown Author
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our… — Unknown Author
Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If… — Edward Abbey
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least… — Alexander Hamilton
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign… — Alexander Hamilton
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle
We cannot be happy without being free; we cannot be free without being secure in our property; we cannot be secure in our property if,… — John Dickinson
Government has hardened into a tyrannical monopoly, and the human race in general becomes as absolutely property as beasts in the plow. — John Dickinson
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and… — Lysander Spooner
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. — Henry David Thoreau
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers. — Judith Martin
The EU and the U.S. often work together to develop international standards. This is the case in fighting terrorism and transnational crime, advancing trade liberalization,… — John Bruton

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