Best 202 quotes in «property quotes» category

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

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

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

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Title deeds generally outlast poems.

When a man dies he kicks the dust.

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

Truth is not private property.

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

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.

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

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!

Where there's property, there's theft.

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

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.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

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

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

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

A great realtor is always in relationship with real estate.

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

Few objects awaken as much as the book the feeling of absolute property. Fallen in our hands, the books become our slaves.

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.

A peasant who has harvested twenty sacks of wheat, which he with his family proposes to consume, deems himself twice as rich as if he had harvested only ten; likewise a housewife who has spun fifty yards of linen believes that she is twice as rich as if she had spun but twentyfive. Relatively to the household, both are right; looked at in their external relations, they may be utterly mistaken. If the crop of wheat is double throughout the whole country, twenty sacks will sell for less than ten would have sold for if it had been but half as great; so, under similar circumstances, fifty yards of linen will be worth less than twenty-five: so that value decreases as the production of utility increases, and a producer may arrive at poverty by continually enriching himself. And this seems unalterable, inasmuch as there is no way of escape except all the products of industry become infinite in quantity, like air and light, which is absurd. God of my reason! Jean Jacques would have said: it is not the economists who are irrational; it is political economy itself which is false to its definitions. Mentita est iniquitas sibi.

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

Bei vielen Menschen [...] vermute ich eine geheime Verfassung, deren virtueller Artikel 1 lautet: "Die Besitzstandswahrung ist unantastbar.

Central to Möser's view of the human world was "honor," a notion that was as important to corporatist society as the notion of dignity would be for the more individualistic society that succeeded it. In Möser's view, a person acquired his identity from his place in the institutional structure of society, a society in which economic, social, and political institutions were not distinguished from one another. His status (as a guildsman, noble landowner, serf, or independent peasant cottager) determined not only how he earned his living, but his sense of who he was, of what his duties and obligations were, of those to whom he ought to defer and those who ought to defer to him. (In the language of modern sociology, Möser's society was one in which almost all of the individual's roles derived from a single status.) Who one was was largely a continuation of what one's forebears had been. For Möser the real self was the socially encumbered self, the self based on status, on historical and regional particularity, and on property. It was a self whose prime virtue was honor. Status and the honor that attached to it were inherited, although they could be lost if one failed to live up to the duties of one's rank.

Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. More is good. More is good. We repeat it-- and have it repeated to us-- over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore.

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.

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.