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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
— Honore De Balzac
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
— Howard Berman
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.
— Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
— Ivo Andric
Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors, and they must be represented by an official guardian.
— Jake Halpern
The life of a citizen is the property of his country.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
How is it women have equality when it comes to taking a hit but the rest of the time they're just some guy's property?
— Joanna Wylde
the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For
— Frederic Bastiat
The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.
— Leo Tolstoy
Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.
— Neal Stephenson
For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
— Virginia Woolf
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
— Garrett Hardin
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.
— Ayn Rand
Knowledge is a unique kind of property, indeed: you can share it with others, while still possessing it.
— Eraldo Banovac
The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.
— Blaise Pascal
Govenment is founded on property
Property is founded on conquest
Conquest is founded on power
All power is founded on brain and brawn. — Ragnar Redbeard
Property is founded on conquest
Conquest is founded on power
All power is founded on brain and brawn. — Ragnar Redbeard
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
— Potter Stewart
Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.
— Michael Badnarik
Property was thus appall'd / That the self was not the same / Single nature's double name / Neither two nor one was call'd.
— Michael Oakeshott
You cannot steal somebody's intellectual property. Law and justice protect.
— Bikram Choudhury
Learning to love any one is like an increase of property,
it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm. — George Eliot
it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm. — George Eliot
All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
— Adam Clarke
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.
— Vladimir Lenin
Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
— Wang Jianlin
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
— Robert A. Heinlein
No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.
— Mark Twain
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
— William Penn
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
— Euripides
As soon as you cross your property line, you might as well write off the possibility of getting anything else done that day.
— Mark Frauenfelder
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.
— Pierre De Coubertin
MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.
— Patricia Briggs
Our private property must be sacrificed.
— Dolley Madison
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I was seriously afraid you were going to kill yourself on our property
— Amber L. Johnson
And anyway, who defines "real life"? Who says "real life" is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? "Shit-boring tedious life," more like.
— Sophie Kinsella
This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.
— William Shakespeare
It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
— Thomas Paine
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
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
— John C. Calhoun
Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.
— Spencer W. Kimball
Gratitude is a sign of maturity ... Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
— James Madison
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
— Potter Stewart
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
— Edward Hopper
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
— Friedrich Engels
The sun is pure communism everywhere but in cities, where it's private property.
— Malcolm De Chazal
New York blacks could not vote unless they owned $250 in property (a qualification not applied to whites).
— Howard Zinn
I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.
— Melanie Brown
To be mulcted of our money and mutilated of our property is serious enough: to be deprived of our colon would be intolerable.
— Eric Partridge
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
— Herbert Hoover
We are born rich, it is for us to decide between materialistic poorness or building upon intellectual richness.
— Vishwas Chavan
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
— G.K. Chesterton
Yes, pain meant life. But the symmetric property did not apply; Life did not mean pain.
— Barry Lyga
More people are working in jobs that are interactive technology based or find a basis in intellectual property.
— Marsha Blackburn
... the value of the pledged property is vitally dependent on the earning power of the enterprise.
— Benjamin Graham
The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.
— Noel Whittaker
Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.
— Malcolm Gladwell
[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.
— Andrew Joseph Galambos
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
— James Madison
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
— George Bernard Shaw
[Songwriting is] something that I own - it's my property, it's my music, it's my voice.
— Nick Jonas
If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.
— George Sweeting
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
— Ezra Stiles
Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.
— Marco Arment
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.
— Mike Fitzpatrick
We all believe that, we can't buy love even if we are rich enough; but I think no one buys his own property.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property.
— Lawrence Lessig
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
— Roger Scruton
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
— Walter Lippmann
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful.
— Julian Assange
There was an air of decay that enveloped the property as if it had been kissed by dead lips glossed with mildew.
— Keith Minshew
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
— Siri Hustvedt
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the 'Financial Times'.
— Marjorie Scardino
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power
power sufficient to interfere with property. — Lord Acton
power sufficient to interfere with property. — Lord Acton
Establish democracy at home, based on human rights as superior to property rights ...
— Jeannette Rankin
I could have gotten away with it, I would have given her a 24-karat gold necklace that read Property of Quinn Sullivan
— Penny Reid
I will always recommend Goodwin & Thyne Properties to all my friends and business associates, thank you for going over and beyond the call of duty!
— Andy Romano
There is no such thing as intellectual property.
— Jean-Luc Godard
Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
— Samuel Johnson
If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.
— Aldous Huxley