Quotes with property

  • Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.
  • The property qualifications for federal office that the framers of the Constitution expressly chose to exclude for demonstrating an unseemly veneration of wealth are now de facto in force and higher than the Founding Fathers could have imagined.
  • If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
  • Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
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  • Pierre Joseph Proudhon Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
    Pierre Joseph Proudhon
    French sociologist and economist (1809 - 1865)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Anthony Trollope A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Butler A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Shirley Lord Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!
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  • James Madison As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
    James Madison
    American statesman, President (1751 - 1836)
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  • Andrew Jackson As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Adam Smith As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Erich Fromm Authority is not a quality one person ''has,'' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Sigmund Freud By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Voltaire By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Henry David Thoreau By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bill Viola Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Aristotle Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Peter F. Drucker Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Arthur Bryant Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.
    Arthur Bryant
    English historian, columnist for The Illustrated London News and man (1899 - 1985)
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  • John Locke Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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