Best 202 quotes in «property quotes» category

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.

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

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 will not be master of my body & my property

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

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

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.

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

All property is theft, except mine.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

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.

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

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

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

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'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 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 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.

I'm tired of being considered property.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is not uncommon to suppose that the free exchange of property in markets and capitalism are one and the same. They are not. While capitalism operates through the free market, free markets don't require capitalism.

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

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

I recover my property wherever I find it.

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

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

Learning is the property of those who fear to do disagreeable things.