Best 202 quotes in «property quotes» category

The purchaser draws boundaries, fences himself in, and says, “This is mine; each one by himself, each one for himself.” Here, then, is a piece of land upon which, henceforth, no one has a right to step, save the proprietor and his friends; which can benefit nobody, save the proprietor and his servants. Let these sales multiply, and soon the people — who have been neither able nor willing to sell, and who have received none of the proceeds of the sale — will have nowhere to rest, no place of shelter, no ground to till. They will die of hunger at the proprietor’s door, on the edge of that property which was their birthright; and the proprietor, watching them die, will exclaim, “So perish idlers and vagrants!

The purpose of real estate agent should be to create a customer who creates customers.

There is an undeniable web connecting incidents such as the rise to power of dictators... poverty and the perception of human beings as disposable property.

This dog is mine," said those poor children; "that is my place in the sun." Here is the beginning and the image of the usurpation of all the earth.

The waters rose and the properties devalued.

The U.S. system of justice contains laws whereby nonhuman animals have no legal standing, but are defined as “property,” as wives and enslaved Africans once were. Other animals (including mice, rats, and birds) are excluded from the legal definition of “animal” in the U.S., thereby denying these individuals whatever slight protection might be provided by U.S. animal welfare laws, and allowing science to use these sentient beings in any way researchers see fit, without fear of legal sanction. Other speciesist laws prevent animal advocates from using free speech on behalf of hunted animals, while protecting right-to-life advocates who speak out on behalf of fetuses. Institutionalized support for the systematic oppression of nonhuman animals is also evident in the recent Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, as well as in the mainstream media, both of which – unbelievably – label animal advocates as “terrorists.

To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.

Un fait capital domine toute la civilisation moderne, le fait que la propriété d'un seul peut s'accroître indéfiniment, et même, en vertu du consentement presque universel, embrasser le monde entier.

What was marriage but sex plus property.

Usimwabudu mungu mwingine isipokuwa Mungu. Usimwabudu mtu, mnyama, sanamu, samaki, au usiziabudu fikira zako kichwani. Usiitumikie kazi, mali, mila, anasa, siasa, wala usiyatumikie mamlaka au usiutumikie umaarufu au ufahari, kuliko Mungu. Ukiithamini kazi, mali, mila, anasa, siasa au ukiyathamini mamlaka, au ukiuthamini umaarufu au ufahari zaidi kuliko Mungu, au ukiyapa majukumu yako muda mwingi zaidi kuliko Mungu umeabudu miungu; wakati ulipaswa kumwabudu Mungu peke yake. Usiwe na vipaumbele vingine vyovyote vile katika maisha yako zaidi ya Mungu, kwani Mungu ni Mungu mwenye wivu.

Water belongs to us all. Nature did not make the sun one person's property, nor air, nor water, cool and clear.

Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.

When business owners focus on learning and growing, money follows by default.

When men say, for instance (by a false metaphor), that each member of the public should feel himself an owner of public property – such as a Town Park – and should therefore respect it as his own, they are saying something which all our experience proves to be completely false. No man feels of public property that it is his own; no man will treat it with the care or the affection of a thing which is his own; still less can a man express himself through the use of a thing which is not his own, but shared in common with a mass of other men.

With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One of the things I find very interesting in our current debates is this concept of who creates wealth. That wealth is only created when it's owned privately. What would you call clean water, fresh air, a safe environment? Are they not a form of wealth? And why does it only become wealth when some entity puts a fence around it and declares it private property? Well, you know, that's not wealth creation. That's wealth usurpation.

You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

you will not be master of my body & my property

You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home.

Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

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

All property is theft, except mine.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

A universal ethos cannot be thought the property of any one culture.

Conservatism has always meant more to me than simply sticking up for private property & free enterprise. It has also meant defending our heritage & preserving our values.

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

If I am a thief, it's because of private property.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

If you mix up chirality, a protein's properties change enormously. Life couldn't operate with just random mixtures of stuff.

I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

I'm tired of being considered property.