Property Quotes
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I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.
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Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.
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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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Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
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Antifa are the left-wing version of Nazis. They are very violent; they are terrible people. They cause a ruckus and property damage.
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Editing might be a bloody trade. But knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.
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Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.
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In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.
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Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government, and that for which men enter into society, it necessarily supposes and requires, that the people should have property, without which they must be supposed to lose that, by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it; too gross an absurdity for any man to own.
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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 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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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.
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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
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But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because it is repugnant to the law of nature and of nations.
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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.
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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.
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The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.
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Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
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Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.
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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
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Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
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Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.