Quotes About Property

So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call self-respect.

From the respect paid to property flow, as from a poisoned fountain, most of the evils and vices which render this world such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind.

there is remarkably little support in economics for regulating information, knowledge, and cultural production through the tools of intellectual property law.

Qué lástima!, los primeros textos de la historia no contienen ideas filosóficas, ni poesía, leyendas, leyes, ni siquiera triunfos reales. Son documentos económicos aburridos que registran el pago de impuestos, la acumulación de deudas y la posesión de propiedades

Rather, it was written by tying knots on colourful cords called quipus. Each quipu consisted of many cords of different colours, made of wool or cotton. On each cord, several knots were tied in different places. A single quipu could contain hundreds of cords and thousands of knots. By combining different knots on different cords with different colours, it was possible to record large amounts of mathematical data relating to, for example, tax collection and property ownership.2

Property is a prerequisite for long-term inequality.

El capital se va paulatinamente de los estados dictatoriales que no defienden a los individuos privados y su propiedad. En cambio, afluye a los estados que hacen cumplir la norma de la ley y de la propiedad privada.

Hence the first religious effect of the Agricultural revolution was to turn plants and animals from equal members of a spiritual round table into property

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.

You know, destroying personal property is very thirsty work. I might need a shot of vodka to go with this.

Commerce works better than theft.

6,500 square feet.

We mustn't feel bad because someone steals our ideas. It happens. Instead, we should feel bad that they didn't have any of their own to begin with.

Those rocks we stepped over to get here – I'm assuming they go right around your property, yes? What do you need with a protective circle?" Jacob examined him,

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.

The authorities of the Southern States immediately after, and in some cases a few days before, their actual secession, took possession (in every instance without resistance or bloodshed) of forts, arsenals, custom-houses, and other public property within their respective limits.

The question was merely whether the slaveholder should be permitted to go, with his slaves, into territory (the common property of all) into which the non-slaveholder could go with his property of any sort. There was no proposal nor desire on the part of the Southern States to reopen the slave-trade, which they had been foremost in suppressing, or to add to the number of slaves. It was a question of the distribution, or dispersion, of the slaves, rather than of the "extension of slavery.

As we followed him down a hall to a back bedroom, he told us that he owned the house. "Unfortunately, it's not haunted," he said.

McVeigh then drove the 1,300 miles to Arkansas, where he met up with Nichols, and they looked at property they might buy together, perhaps to start a blueberry farm.

No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.