Quotes About Property

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.

Housing goes hand-in-hand with renting and when I mention the word rent you already know that taxation is involved too.

Nothing is so beautiful like owning a house.

Women and land were for the use and benefit of man.75

By 1760, only 5 percent of white Georgians owned even a single slave, while a handful of families possessed them in the hundreds.

waste people," and later "white trash," marginalized Americans were stigmatized for their inability to be productive, to own property, or to produce healthy and upwardly mobile children

not over. Any claim Eliza has on her husband's estate lies in

The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing?

What we call real estate—the solid ground to build a house on—is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

Slaves, whose legal status was comparable to that of livestock, were expected to provide a farm owner with marketable children.

When a "founding father's" remarks about "liberty" don't seem to make sense, substitute the word "property" and they do.

The South's 1860 population of 3,953,742 enslaved people comprised or made viable an estimated four billion dollars' worth of private property... ...Four billion dollars was more than double the $1.92 billion value of farmland in the eleven states that seceded.* Without labor Southern land lost what value it had, but even with labor Southern land in 1860 still was worth much less than land in the free states

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.

A man is not a man until he has a house of his own.

buildings ravaged by the violence of those who lived there, reflecting it back on the residents. Homes of people too mentally ill to care for themselves or their property.

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When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

In the United States, we rely on local property taxes to fund public schools, so rich suburbs enjoy first-rate public schools that are a pipeline to the best universities, and underprivileged children suffer in third-rate schools with, often, the worst teachers.

Revolutions are carried out in order to change the ownership of property and the names of streets. The revolutionary who seeks to change "man's condition" ends up being shot for being a counter-revolutionary.

By God, the point of the thing is not in this property, which can be confiscated, but in that which no one can steal and carry off! ... Forget this noisy world and all its seductive fancies; let it forget you, too. There is no peace in it. You see: everything in it is either an enemy, a tempter, or a traitor.

After all, the realtor had taken Wendy to fifteen other houses. She was working for her money.

The liberal accepts the main outlines of our existing economic system as desirable and as destined to endure at least for some generations. He accepts and champions the right to use one's talents and efforts to produce, acquire, and to keep property. And the right of capital to a fair return for its work. This means a definite rejection of communism, socialism, and fascism."1

Allí donde la vida se configura como una perpetua lucha por la obtención de dinero, el hombre acaba, de facto, transformado en un bien más del sistema de la propiedad