Best 202 quotes in «property quotes» category

Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.

The English language is nobody's special property.

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

The freer the market is and the more respect you have for private property, the better the environment is protected.

The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

The property of power is to protect.

The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

The property of others is always more inviting than our own; and that which we ourselves possess is most pleasing to others.

The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

There is nothing illegal in keeping up a tomb; on the contrary, it is a very laudable thing to do.

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

Things work once you have property, trade and contract in place.

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

Title deeds generally outlast poems.

Those whom the gods chose as their property must not consort with mortals.

Truth and falsity is something that concerns language, it's a property of language.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

Truth is not private property.

When I get that question, about diversity, I don't go, "Yeah, well you know they don't pay me." That's not my story. I own six properties; Hollywood has been damn good to me. Now you can ask me, "Have they paid you what you deserve?" That's the question, but you'd have to go to the studios, I don't know. I do the work!

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

Where there's property, there's theft.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.

Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

A good real estate agent sells himself before he sells his services.

A great realtor is always in relationship with real estate.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

A customer oriented realtor not only finds you a good home, he also finds you a good neighborhood.

A great real estate agent don't sells, he helps.

A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and ran back to his car packing away. After making two trips in and out, he waited in the car for his family to come out, in fear they darted through the darkness and pelting cold rain. When everything calmed down, and the house was intact and safe, he returned putting everything back in its place, had the kids go to bed, told his wife he loves her and turned off the light.

Americans think New Yorkers are property obsessed, but clearly they haven’t lived a day in Hong Kong. In this part of the world, a man isn’t a man until he is a homeowner. His entire life leads up to the singular moment when he hands over the down-payment check and puts his signature on the triplicate purchase agreement. All the good grades and job promotions he has received are mere preparation; and every source of happiness - marriage, children and retirement - depends on it.

An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet or a soap-works. Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn't work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sanction but that of private conscience.

A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate.