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

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

The English language is nobody's special property.

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

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

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

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

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

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 of power is to protect.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Truth is not private property.

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

Title deeds generally outlast poems.

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

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

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

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

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.

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

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

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

A great realtor is always in relationship with real estate.

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

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

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.

From Smith's principle that labor is the true measure of price—or, as Warren phrased it, that cost is the proper limit of price—these three men (Josiah Warren, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx) made the following deductions: that the natural wage of labor is its product; that this wage, or product, is the only just source of income (leaving out, of course, gift, inheritance, etc.); that all who derive income from any other source abstract it directly or indirectly from the natural and just wage of labor; that this abstracting process generally takes one of three forms, interest, rent, and profit; that these three constitute the trinity of usury, and are simply different methods of levying tribute for the use of capital; that, capital being simply stored-up labor which has already received its pay in full, its use ought to be gratuitous, on the principle that labor is the only basis of price; that the lender of capital is entitled to its return intact, and nothing more; that the only reason why the banker, the stockholder, the landlord, the manufacturer, and the merchant are able to exact usury from labor lies in the fact that they are backed by legal privilege, or monopoly; and that the only way to secure to labor the enjoyment of its entire product, or natural wage, is to strike down monopoly.

...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.

Being vegan isn't about restricting oneself in any way, it's simply about ceasing to take things which clearly are not ours.

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