Quotes About Property

Though the looting fever eventually subsided in Poland and elsewhere, it may well have helped build tolerance for the corruption and theft of public property that were so common later on.

It was typical of many hunts in that it was based on a bitter quarrel over property in which men used women as a target.

We would consider the nearly twelve-year-old a child. By the standards of Elizabeth's day, twelve marked the beginning of the end of childhood for most females, but particularly for female slaves whose status as property made the designation "child" short-lived.

Student rental is definitely a very profitable form; it is also a very time intensive type of investment. There's a lot of working involved with student rentals.

I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff.

To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.

I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

It is time to move on. House prices won't rise and the economy won't fully engage until more distressed properties are resolved and put back into ordinary use.

If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling.

I buy things that are good properties that I'm going to have forever. I just don't have any intention to sell anything. I believe you acquire good assets and you keep them and operate them.

I knew I was going to lose my house in Ireland and all the other properties. It's all gone. But my house was the one material thing that was very important to me.

People form strong attachments to their properties.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

The first piece of property that I bought was in Tuscany in 1973.

Our private property must be sacrificed.

People have to respect intellectual property.