Quotes About Property

like a peasant tending to his property,

The moment you introduce property rights into the equation, everything changes: the starfish organization turns into a spider. If you really want to centralize an organization, hand property rights to the catalyst and tell him to distribute resources as he sees fit. With power over property rights, the catalyst turns into a CEO and circles become competitive.

At the core of what happened with the Apaches and with AA was the concentration of power. Once people gain a right to property, be it cows or book royalties, they quickly seek out a centralized system to protect their interests. It's why we want our banks to be centralized. We want control, we want structure, we want reporting when it comes to our money.

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of the community) is one of the ways in which we respect others. It is an essential part of being considerate guests, no matter where we are: in an airplane, in a friend's home, in a movie theater, in a doctor's office, in a public library, or in a public square.

I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.

Jack poured wine into Janet's glass, fighting to ignore what felt suspiciously like nerves. "Bon appétit." What the hell did he possibly have to be nervous about? Absolutely nothing. That's what. This wasn't a date or some damned romantic liaison. He was having dinner with an acquaintance who'd gotten stranded near his property—and who just happened to be a beautiful woman.

Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of life or the enjoyment of private property. For socialized human beings were prone to deceive and to exploit others while pretending to be public-spirited.

MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT.

Cunningham, the English lord, owned all our land, all our houses; he could put any of us out if he wanted.

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.

The Field isn't really much of a field, it's more like a property plot that someone never built on because they died or lost it in a divorce or something...

Copyright © 2012 by Kathryn Cramer

Copyright (C) 2012 by Elizabeth Bear

Copyright (C) 2012 by Charles Stross

Often, companies will wait until the original patent has nearly run its course and then introduce some minor tweak to the product, thereby obtaining a new patent and effectively restarting the clock.

Did you know I never paid taxes before I came here? The Edema don't own property, as a rule." He gestured at the inn. "I never understood how galling it was. Some smug bastard with a ledger comes into town, makes you pay for the privilege of owning something.

The two of you are trespassing on private property. Get out before I call the cops," said Gary. "Yeah, right, because concerned citizens always open fire with automatic weapons first, then call the police.

You may find it both unsettling and liberating to realize that you are a process rather than an object, a verb rather than a noun. When we affirm that we are our bodies but deny that our bodies are property, we undermine one of the most destructive ideas in history: that people are something other than animals.

isn't it intriguing that thought cannot exist without language, and since language is a function of the brain, we would have to say that language---the ability to experience the world through symbols---is in some sense a physical property of human beings, which proves that the old mind-body duality is so much nonsense, doesn't it? Adieu, Descartes. The mind and body are one.

How does socialism get started? A. Three simple steps. Engels explained: "By limiting private property in such a way that it gradually prepares the way for its transformation into social property, e.g., by progressive taxation, limitation of the right of inheritance in favor of the state, etc. By employing workers in national workshops and factories and on national estates. By educating all children at the expense of the state.

Philosophers hold liberty and justice to be universal and necessary concepts because they know of no societies other than those founded on private property.

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.