Property Quotes

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

Property has its duties as well as its rights.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?