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.

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?

Challenging unfairly subsidized products, fighting counterfeit goods and intellectual property theft and holding countries accountable for an unfair currency regime will help American companies remain competitive.

In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

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.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

The Gen. Commanding, takes this means of informing the people that he has not come among them to disturb them in the enjoyment of their rights, either of person or property.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.