Quotes About Property

Marx - L'ouvrier est ainsi triplement aliéné : - Par rapport à lui-même (il a vendu sa force de travail au capitaliste) ; - Par rapport à la marchandise (le produit de son travail appartient à un autre, le capitaliste) ; - Par rapport au capitaliste lui-même (le salariat est une forme substitutive de l'esclavage dans laquelle les individus ne sont pas juridiquement la propriété des maîtres).

De même, il se fait couramment une confusion entre les femmes d'ouvriers et les ouvrières, appartenance de classe tantôt sur une définition marxiste de la classe - sur leur rapport de production - tantôt en reprenant à son compte la définition des femmes comme propriété et extension du mari.

The property belonged to our boss and his wife. A pebble-dashed box streaked with green algae, it had a pine paneled kitchen and a low ceiling sitting room with a Rayburn, a brown vinyl sofa, and eye-bending 1970s carpets that did bad things to you when you were drunk.

The economic basis of the State did not correspond with the administrative character which Charlemagne had endeavoured to preserve. The economy of the State was based upon the great domain without commercial outlets. The landowners had no need of security, since they did not engage in commerce. Such a form of property is perfectly consistent with anarchy. Those who owned the soil had no need of the king.

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they wished to possess. The usual theory holds that the communal system would not permit the gratification of this desire at the expense of communal rights, and that therefore men were driven to gratify their passion by purchasing or by capturing women from neighboring and hostile tribes.

Man loves most that which is his own.

On Noddle's Island, now East Boston, was established Samuel Maverick, a young gentleman of property and education, who had there laid out a farm, built him a house and fort, where four guns were mounted, and which served as a refuge and defence for all the planters of the neighbourhood.

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

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

The great cause of inequality in the distribution of wealth is inequality in the ownership of land. The ownership of land is the great fundamental fact which ultimately determines the social, the political, and consequently the intellectual and moral condition of a people.

As no man made the land, so no man can claim a right of ownership in the land.

What is that common cause? There is one sufficient cause that is common to all nations; and that is the appropriation as the property of some of that natural element on which and from which all must live. Take

What is that common cause? There is one sufficient cause that is common to all nations; and that is the appropriation as the property of some of that natural element on which and from which all must live. Take that fact I have spoken of, that appalling fact that, even now, it is harder to live than it was in the ages dark and rude five centuries ago—how do you explain it? There is no difficulty in finding the cause.

You find a passenger with his baggage strewn over the seats. You say: Will you give me a seat, if you please, sir? He replies: No; I bought this seat. Bought this seat? From whom did you buy it? I bought it from the man who got out at the last station, That is the way we manage this earth of ours.

a thing is not property unless it is owned; and without ownership, there is little incentive to improve it.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

Whoso does not play at dice will not lose property, but still people play at dice. There is in that a certain delight and destruction of the present.

Nekhlúdoff clearly saw that all these people were arrested, locked up, exiled, not really because they transgressed against justice or behaved unlawfully, but only because they were an obstacle hindering the officials and the rich from enjoying the property they had taken away from the people.

Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow. She

My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.

Under communism, there is collective ownership of property de jure. Under Nazism, there is the same collective ownership de facto.

And these six things: love, property, the state, war, work, and death, are the legacy of Cain, who slew his brother and whose brother's blood cried out to heaven, and the Lord spake to Cain: 'You shall be cursed upon the earth and a fugitive and a vagabond.' 

It was a popular theory at the time that death didn't automatically end a marriage because the spouses would eventually be reunited in heaven. The most pragmatic reason for the Church's view was that England was a land-based society and property was inherited upon the death of a spouse, so a remarriage threatened the inheritance of any issue from the previous union.