Quotes About Property

It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.

There are no patents in finance.

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.

Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product.

People are getting patents on things that are too general.

I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

Consider a 15- or 20-year fixed-rate mortgage instead of a 30-year, if you can afford the monthly payments - they may not be as high as you think.

Na propriedade, como em todos os elementos econômicos, o mal ou o abuso é inseparável do bem, exatamente como na contabilidade por partidas dobradas o dever é inseparável do haver. Um engendra necessariamente o outro. Querer suprimir o abuso da propriedade é destruí-la; da mesma maneira que suprimir um artigo do débito de uma conta é destruí-lo no crédito.

la propriété, c'est le vol!

What, I ask, has the fixed and solid nature of the earth to do with the right of appropriation? (...) But the creator of the land does not sell it: he gives it; and, in giving it, he is no respecter of persons. Why, then, are some of his children regarded as legitimate, while others are treated as bastards? If the equality of shares was an original right, why is the inequality of conditions a posthumous right?

Property and society are completely irreconcilable with one another. It is as impossible to associate two proprietors as to join two magnets by their opposite poles. Either society must perish, or it must destroy property.

Property and royalty have been crumbling ever since the beginning of the world. As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

Yes: all men believe and repeat that equality of conditions is identical with equality of rights; that property and robbery are synonymous terms; that every social advantage accorded, or rather usurped, in the name of superior talent or service, is iniquity and extortion. All men in their hearts, I say, bear witness to these truths; they need only to be made to understand it.

Mülkiyet h?rs?zl?kt?r.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

?statymai, - kart? pasak? jis Džonui, - n?ra Dievo duoti, bet žmogaus sugalvoti. Pasiži?r?k gerai ? žmones, kurie juos kuria, ir pagalvok, kokiems tikslams jie tarnauja - juk dažniausiai apginti nuosavyb? t?, kurie j? turi, nuo t?, kurie jos neturi.

Oligarchy: A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it.

The greatest value among the objects of human property, not only among precious stones, is due to the diamond, for a long time known only to kings and even to very few of these.

Der Name Polo Hofer ist geschützt und registriert beim Eidgenössischen Institut für Geistiges Eigentum, Marke Nr. 545131, SHAB Nr. 86 / 4. Mai 2006

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

kau harus bertindak terhadap siapa saja yang mengambil seluruh atau sebagian dari milikmu, sekali pun hanya segumpil batu yang tergeletak di bawah jendela. Bukan karena batu itu sangat berharga bagimu. Azasnya: mengambil milik tanpa ijin: pencurian; itu tidak benar, harus dilawan.

Adat perempuan dibeli; adat orang tua menjual; kalau harta sudah di tangan apalagi akan dipersoalkan?