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Property Quotes by Niccolo Machiavelli
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work…
- One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit; while you treat…
- So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.
- When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
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- To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. — Honore de Balzac
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- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. — John Adams
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