Quotes About Property

And yet," interposed the villainous-looking fellow who played Scaramouche, "by your own confessing you don't hesitate, yourself, to trespass upon his property." "Ah, but then, you see, I am a lawyer. And lawyers are notoriously unable to observe the law, just as actors are notoriously unable to act.

Govenment is founded on property Property is founded on conquest Conquest is founded on power All power is founded on brain and brawn.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

decades, China had been quietly buying property—and loyalty—in third-world countries while the other major powers squabbled nose to nose.

racism is so woven into the fabric of american society that it will take several decades, if possible, to de-programme the populous not to see others as just-property-to be sold and let.Until then, the injustices will continue.

One of the reasons his subordinated lease idea worked so well was that in the late fifties we didn't have the proliferation of franchise operations and the fierce competition for commercial fringe property that developed in the course of the next twenty years.

According to Wood's critics, however, this "idea of equality" left many in the lurch: women who could not vote, almost half a million slaves, somewhere between 110,000 and 150,000 Native Americans, about 80,000 to 100,000 loyalists who had to leave their homes (as well as hundreds of thousands of others who remained where they were but faced repercussions for their prior allegiances), and even many patriots who remained without property at war's end.

When slave owners claimed they could not join the minutemen because they had to stay home to prevent insurrections, small farmers objected that service in the military was "calculated to exempt the gentlemen and throw the whole burthern on the poor" and that "the Rich wanted the Poor to fight for them, to defend there property, whilst they refused to fight for themselves."32

as draftees of any substance searched for substitutes to fill their slots, boys and men of little property who were willing to sell their time and bodies found no shortage of takers.

With the exception of officers, most of the long-term soldiers were boys and men of little wealth. Most could not even vote, whether because of their age or their lack of property.

In April of 1778 the assembly got tougher yet: failure to take the oath could result not only in imprisonment but in the loss of citizenship, banishment, and the confiscation of property. On the day the new law went into effect, nineteen Moravians were arrested

In the words of historian Robert Olwell, "fugitive slaves were sheltered under the guise that they constituted contraband enemy property, rather than recognized as liberated persons."90 Royal officers wanted slaves for the labor they might perform—and to deprive the rebels of that labor.

There's a lot of drama that goes into just buying a house, let alone renovating a house.

Buying a home is exciting, but it's also a big financial commitment.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Every voice on the Left bleated about how they feared protests and riots by angry Donald Trump supporters if and when he lost the election, yet it is the Leftists themselves destroying property and blocking roads. Everyone can see where the hate is coming from. Everyone.

People's financial situation has changed, and they surrender their cats all the time, because they're downsizing or moving to a property where they are not allowed to have pets.

Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters, wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.

how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.

But much of what happened after the levees broke didn't have to. It was the result of fear. When Tierney was speaking about elite panic—"fear of social disorder; fear of poor, minorities, and immigrants; obsession with looting and property crime; willingness to resort to deadly force; and actions taken on the basis of rumor"—she was talking shortly after Katrina