Property Quotes
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
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In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.
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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.
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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.
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Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.
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Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
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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.
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Why will our elections be equal? Because neither differences in regard to property (differences partly existing) nor differences of race and nationality will cause any privileges or disadvantages. Women will enjoy the right to elect and be elected equally with men. Our elections will be really equal.
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The conditions today are exceptionally difficult, and the primary concern of the state is and will be the protection of lives and by extension of property.
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
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Entropy theory is indeed a first attempt to deal with global form; but it has not been dealing with structure. All it says is that a large sum of elements may have properties not found in a smaller sample of them.
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
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[Uniting workers should not] lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property.
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Some French socialist said that private property was theft... I say that private property is a nuisance.
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Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.
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Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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I deem it established, then, that the Constitution does not recognize property in man, but leaves that question, as between the states, to the law of nature and of nations.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
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Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
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The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone. How many of us nice middle-class folk could make it without our mortgage reduction.
