Quotes About Property

Agreed, he says. But once your purpose was served, shouldn't your life be your own? Miracles are the property of God, she answers. No, he says, miracles are gifts from God. To call them his property insults the spirit in which they are given.

it's when you're on the row that you notice that everything is owned and that there are locks on everything.

Broadly speaking, says to Thornton, the Boston University historian, "slaves were the only form of private, revenue-producing property recognized in African law.

Why is thought being a secretion of brain, more wonderful than gravity a property of matter? It is our arrogance, our admiration of ourselves.

Apparently you're only allowed to demolish Wolverhampton if you're a property developer like Donald Trump. Crawling eldritch horrors don't get planning permission unless they're Trump's hairpiece.

A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.

the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10

Aristotle warned that in a democracy, there always existed the potential for the poor to seize the property of the rich. Democracy, Aristotle wrote, could not coexist with huge levels of inequality. Everyone had to have a stake in society. There were other responses to Aristotle's understanding, including from Athenian tyrants and later James Madison, who urged government to reduce democracy and cripple the political power of the working class.

So if the wall's cracked or you've got leaky faucets, or you've got mold issues, or some sort of damage to your home, selling a home that's got that kind of distress to it is the biggest mistake you will make, because immediately people who are fearful will walk away.

We protect monopolies with copyright.

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.

Opt for a fixed-rate rather than an adjustable-rate mortgage.

Foreclosure is to no one's benefit. I've heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure.

All homeowners in America may deduct mortgage interest on their first and second homes.

Dado que las elecciones democráticas se realizan siempre a corto plazo, los políticos tienen todos los incentivos para extraer tanta riqueza como les sea posible del capital fijo bajo su jurisdicción, ya sea a través de impuestos, de la imposición de cargas sobre la propiedad o de la expropiación. Solamente la conciencia del público sobre las consecuencias a largo plazo puede limitar esta forma de explotación.

By 1709, the Irish owned only 14 percent of the land in their own

other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. For everything

The long gray two-story box was the newest structure on the property, having been built in the 1970s. The buildings up the hill had accumulated one by one since the 1920s, most of them incorporating bits salvaged from various torn-down hotels and movie sets. Their aunt Amity, affluent from the sales of her series of popular novels, had added to the architectural clutter after

Is stealing stolen property less reprehensible than plain stealing?

There was no point in trying to compensate for the crimes of the past, but "the nearest approach to justice to the negro for the past is to do him justice in the present."19 That meant integrating schools and ending legal barriers to employment and property ownership.

He argued that a woman should have equal rights in family property and should be educated, especially in matters of law and finance: "it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection."27 Most important, though, Fukuzawa encouraged an independent spirit.

Ryan nodded. He understood the phenomenon. "The money is in the dirt, it just has to be dug up or pumped up. The money isn't in innovation or intellectual property or in manufacturing. After a while, a nation loses its ability to innovate and to think and to build things.

Books, the estate agent had told him, provide excellent insulation, and since the heating bills would be very considerable in any event, he might as well leave them there even if he had no intention of ever reading them.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity.