Property Quotes

• Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Exercise
  • Individual
  • Social

• Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it] is not a coercive action. It is rather part of a package deal in which the secretary agrees to all aspects of the job when she agrees to accept the job, and especially when she agrees to keep the job. The office is, after all, private property. The secretary does not have to remain if the 'coercion' is objectionable.

  

  Walter Block
  • Action
  • Accepting
  • Secretary

• Songwriting is something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Voice
  • Property
  • Songwriting

• Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own.

  

  Sallust
  • Property
  • Greedy
  • Extravagant

• Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Mother
  • Building
  • Dancing

• These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

  

  Epictetus
  • Style
  • Connection
  • Reasoning

• Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Property
  • Gambling
  • Rich-something

• I'm not an attorney or a person who does intellectual property .

  

  Manning Marable
  • Intellectual
  • Attorney
  • Intellectual Property

• If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Interest
  • Rich
  • Pleasures

• When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Real
  • Famous
  • Looks

• When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Separates

• Taxation of private property, or the regulation of such property so as to reduce its value, can become in effect a form of servitude.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Value
  • Values
  • Private Property

• Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Property
  • Division
  • Antagonism

• Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Stop

• When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Property
  • Remembered
  • Sacredness

• The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.

  

  William Blackstone
  • Rights
  • Inherent
  • Englishmen

• My dream is that all South Africans from all walks of life will have the opportunity to read my books and use the information therein to successfully invest in property.

  

  Jason Lee
  • Dream
  • Opportunity
  • Information

• There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Property
  • Neighborhoods
  • Negroes

• By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude. It cannot claim the power to redistribute money or property nor to force reluctant citizens to perform acts of charity against their will. Government is created by the people. No individual possesses the power to take another's wealth or to force others to do good, so no government has the the right to do such things either. The creature cannot exceed the creator.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Government
  • Charity
  • Citizens

• The straight line has a property of self-similarity. Each piece of the straight line is the same as the whole line when used to a big or small extent.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Small
  • Bigs
  • Lines

• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Labor
  • Property
  • Desirable

• A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Government
  • Democracy

• Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Property
  • Desired

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