Property Quotes

• The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.

  

  Melville Fuller
  • Constitution
  • Emancipation
  • Proclamation

• I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Up
  • May
  • Never

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

  

  Sallust
  • Property
  • Greedy
  • Extravagant

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

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Property
  • Gambling
  • Rich-something

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Manning Marable
  • Intellectual
  • Attorney
  • Intellectual Property

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their own: in outward objects, they would rather behold their own hogsty than their neighbor's palace; and in mental ones, would prefer one grain of knowledge gained by their own observation to all the wisdom of a thousand Solomons.

  

  Sarah Fielding
  • Men
  • Beautiful
  • Economics

• The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence. She is a greater possessor of material riches than any other single institution, corporation, bank, giant trust, government or state of the whole globe.

  

  Avro Manhattan
  • Power
  • Property
  • Catholic Church

• 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

• Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

  

  George Washington
  • Success
  • inspirational
  • Insightful

• Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Property
  • Hereditary

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