Quotes About Property

Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.

For property is robbery, but then, we are all robbers or would-be robbers together, and have found it essential to organise our thieving, as we have found it necessary to organise our lust and revenge. Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.

Excise—A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.

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

So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone.

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

We've got horse property and there's other stuff to do. Like, four wheel driving, we barbeque, drink beers, sit around and play guitars and have a merry 'ol time

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

I have some assets that over time will be worth something. I've been in the process of selling others.

As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.

I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.

Noether's theorem fused together symmetries and conservation laws-these two giant pillars of physics are actually nothing but different facets of the same fundamental property.

Supersymmetry is a subtle symmetry based on the quantum mechanical property spin.

He was not a bad man, he was a good husband and father, but constant worry about his investments, about the money he earned, about the inevitable expenses that came with being a man of property had worn his nerves to a frazzle so that he was in a constant state of irritation

todo socialismo, al poner en marcha la planificación económica, al acabar con la competencia y la propiedad privada, establece automáticamente un mecanismo que a la corta o a la larga liquida el pluralismo político y las libertades, lo quieran o no los planificadores.

Su defensa de la sociedad civil, de la democracia y de la libertad política, ignoró una pieza clave de la doctrina liberal, aquella que había revelado Adam Smith: que sin libertad económica y sin una garantía legal firme de la propiedad privada y de los contratos, la democracia política y las libertades públicas están siempre mediatizadas.

El efecto práctico de esta creencia es el socialismo (que Hayek identifica con la planificación económica y el dirigismo estatista), un sistema que, para imponerse, necesita la abolición de la libertad, de la propiedad privada, del respeto de los contratos, de la independencia de la justicia y la limitación de la libre iniciativa individual.

la retórica y la manera como había nacido el lenguaje, la comunicación humana, quehacer al que Smith identifica no sólo por una necesidad de supervivencia sino con la propiedad y la simpatía, el don de gentes y el sentido común, pilares de la vida social y de su argamasa: la sociabilidad

la peor enemiga de la propiedad y del gobierno era la nobleza latifundista, aquella aristocracia rentista que a menudo se las arregló para derribar a los gobiernos que limitaban sus poderes

la peor enemiga de la propiedad y del gobierno era la nobleza latifundista, aquella aristocracia rentista que a menudo se las arregló para derribar a los gobiernos que limitaban sus poderes, y que, por lo mismo, fue siempre una amenaza para la justicia, la paz social y el progreso.

Selon Hayek, tout socialisme, lorsqu'il active la planification économique et met fin à la concurrence et à la propriété privée, établit automatiquement un mécanisme qui, à plus ou moins brève échéance, liquide le pluralisme politique et les libertés, que les planificateurs le veuillent ou non.

hasta alcanzar, en nuestros días, la civilización, palabra que en boca de Hayek quiere decir libertad, legalidad, individualismo, propiedad privada, mercado libre, derechos humanos, convivencia y paz.