Best 202 quotes in «property quotes» category

What was marriage but sex plus property.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

you will not be master of my body & my property

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

All property is theft, except mine.

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

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

... 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.

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

Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm tired of being considered property.

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

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

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

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

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

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

I recover my property wherever I find it.

Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

I put all my eggs in one basket and invested in property. I didn't do anything internationally - it was all in Ireland.

It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

I've never been out with a married woman, never. I respect others' properties.

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.