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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass
Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights. — Dick Gregory
In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property. — Alvin Francis Poussaint
As ridiculous to approve of property and let a few men have a grossly unfair share of it, as say you are all for marriage,… — Katharine Whitehorn
To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather. — Henry David Thoreau
the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind — Thomas Jefferson
Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification and manifest reason for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and… — Douglas Hofstadter
The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but… — John S. Mosby
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of… — William James
We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and… — Noam Chomsky
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. — Abraham Lincoln
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it. — Abraham Lincoln
We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly… — Adolf Hitler
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people. — Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own. — Samuel Smiles
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
I was very lucky to be offered a lovely piece of property to build a career on. I started building a house on it, but… — Vanessa Carlton
...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this… — Immanuel Kant
Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than… — Joseph Hall
The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent… — Susan Sontag

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