Quotes About Property

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shall not covet," and "Thou shall not steal," are not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land [to] run away or break.

Oil painting, before anything else, was a celebration of private property. As an art-form it derived from the principle that you are what you have.

Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

In all my life I never met anyone so frivolous as you two, so crazy and unbusinesslike. I tell you in plain Russian your property is going to be sold and you don't seem to understand what I say.

In conditions of private property ... "life-activity" stands in the service of property instead of property standing the service of free life-activity.

The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

In its present terms, the global system values property over human life.

I have made six big home moves in my life and I have never lost money on one I have lived in.

A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince.

Madison's examples suggested a particular concern with factions united by economic or religious passions. Through state-issued paper money, he observed, debtor factions had devalued property rights.

The big three for most investors are equities, interest rate securities, and real estate. Each accounts for about a quarter of the total net worth of US households, though the proportions fluctuate, particularly when an asset class experiences a boom or a bust.

Stealing the ideas of others mirrors and certifies plagiarism.

Most people, the minute they met you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people—people they could get rid of.

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity.

Its immoral to steal, but you can take things.

Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood's forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth… Rousseau said that the first person who wanted a piece of nature as his or her own exclusive possession and transformed it into the transcendent form of private property was the one who invented evil. Good, on the contrary, is what is common.