Property Quotes

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Respect, Matter

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
Thomas Paine

Keep, Order, Discourage

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

Men, Democracy, Rulers

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas Jefferson

Trust, Public, Himself

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

Society, Ignorance, Justice

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Truth, Individual

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.
Aristotle

Men, Business, Special

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

Getting, Desire, Beginning

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau

Rather, Often, Houses

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George Washington

Government, May, Down

Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw

Robbery, Organized

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

Home, Fire, Find

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx

May, Communism, Theory

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand

Work, Reality, Keep

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Job, Woman

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates

Life, Banana, Shelf

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Voltaire

Others, Excellence

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Barack Obama

Marriage, Able, Civil

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
Samuel Adams

Life, Best, Together

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
Erich Fromm

Person, Him, Sense

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry

Religion, Family, Give

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

Rich, Poor, Between

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
James Madison

Power, Person, Opinions

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

Real, Free, Themselves

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Respect, May, Wish

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
e. e. cummings

Mind, Somebody, Private

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
Hubert H. Humphrey

May, Democracy, Enough

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson

Good, Health, Money

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
Ambrose Bierce

Another, Move, Mysterious

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
Ambrose Bierce

Society, Control, Earth

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