Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Niccolo Machiavelli) Quotes

Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli

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• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animals
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  • Torture

• Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Rights
  • Personal
  • Property

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Property

• People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.

  

  Harold Robbins
  • People
  • Up
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• Hogs are extremely sensitive to hunting pressure, and they can move quite a distance in a short time. If hogs receive a lot of hunting pressure, they'll pick up and move, often a mile or two away. So when you have hogs on your property, all your neighbors soon will have hogs on their lands too, whether they want them or not.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Up
  • Time
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• One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Public
  • Property

• This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Property
  • Oxygen
  • Chemists

• I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.

  

  Curt Flood
  • Humans
  • Pieces
  • Property

• I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Property
  • Don't Believe
  • Wealthy

• The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Government
  • Property

• They should also consider owning their property as tenants-in-common, rather than jointly, and they could also think about leaving their property in some form of trust.

  

  John Whiting
  • Leaving
  • Form
  • Property

• One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

  

  Aristotle
  • Poverty
  • Revolution
  • Parent

• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

  

  Aristotle
  • Desire
  • Beginning
  • Property

• Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, but a living man for watch; for a servant is, from the point of view of his craft, categorized as one of its tools. So any piece of property can be regarded as a tool enabling a man to live, and his property is an assemblage of such tools; a slave is a sort of living piece of property; and like any other servant is a tool in charge of other tools.

  

  Aristotle
  • Live
  • Man
  • Property

• Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Problem
  • Building
  • Property

• I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Property
  • Worlds

• Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Nature
  • Property
  • Slaves

• Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Sleep

• I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Black
  • Powerful

• We have to defeat ISIS. That is my highest counterterrorism goal.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • ISIS
  • Counterterrorism goal

• Then also pretexts for seizing property are never wanting, and one who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others, whereas causes for taking life are rarer and more quickly destroyed.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Property
  • Seizing
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