Quotes About Property

My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations, the money was gone.

There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

You're going to hell," Ronnie said for the millionth time. "Don't worry. I've picked up a lovely property overlooking the lake of fire. We're set.

They can't complain to the police, they say, because their cows roam the streets. The police will only take down an FIR (First Information Report) and register a case if cows are stolen from within someone's property. So these farmers buy Alsatian dogs to guard the cows. They buy roosters to wake them up at dawn for the milking; and then buy hens to give the rooster something to do. Within the compound of an urban dairy farmer lies an entire ecosystem.

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.

the goods of he earth remain the earth's, and man does not own even the skin he is wrapped in. All he owns are the feelings of his heart.

I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.

This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

I will note in passing that we shared a dislike for both writers and scholars who treat some body, or some body of work, as if they owned it.

Maybe learning how to be out in the big world isn't the epic journey everyone thinks it is. Maybe that's actually the easy part. The hard part is what's right in front of you. The hard part is learning how to hold the title to your very existence, to own not only property, but also your life.

let us collect our property - and other people's - and depart at once

ours is a culture that does not love children, that continues to see children as the property of parents to do with as they will.

Love is as love does, and it is our responsibility to give children love. When we love children we acknowledge by our every action that they are not property, that they have rights—that we respect and uphold their rights.

We also need a way to regulate the way some companies and individuals buy up patents of promising ideas that would threaten their sources of revenue.

John Adams even appealed the matter to higher spiritual realities when he said, "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence."9

capitalism is an economic system in which individuals or corporate groups have the right to make private decisions and to acquire private property and capital goods based on their own work and competition in a free market.

the value of the pledged property is vitally dependent on the earning power of the enterprise.

There's something cursed, it seems to me, about a country where men have owned men as property. The stink of that corruption never escapes the soul, and it is the stink of future evil.

I do not have to tell you there has been a disappointing retreat of progress in recent times, whatever it is we call progress, especially disappointing because of the little we have had since the Emancipation. There's something cursed, it seems to me, about a country where men have owned men as property. The stink of that corruption never escapes the soul, and it is the stink of future evil. Still, the original decrees have not been withdrawn and are therefore the law.

Arcades are altruism turned architecture – private property given to an entire community.

the comparative framework of sounds or tones that make up a musical scale. So while frequency is a physical property of sound—it's a measurement of the number of cycles per second of a sound wave—pitch refers to what we hear. The chromatic scale