Quotes About Property

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

Property is theft.

Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.

What brings you onto my property? Rhev said, cradling his mug with both hands trying to absorb its warmth. Got a problem I can't fix your personality, sorry

We were just kids . We were property. We belonged to our parents, body and soul. It meant we were doomed in the face of any real danger from the adult world and that meant hopelessness, and humiliation and anger.

The ideal way to study the property of different types of neurons is to control individual types of cells independently and see what happens when you alter one type of cell. Optogenetics helps to realize this goal.

My investigations have indicated that Taib and his family have a property empire in Canada, the US and the UK. Funds have been generated by Taib selling off rainforests with some of the money going through the British Virgin Islands.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

By incentivising the building of more new retirement properties, we can take a step towards unblocking the housing market and ultimately help first-time buyers onto the ladder.

What did we go to war for, if not to protect our property?

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Nonviolence simply cannot defend property rights over human rights.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

A critical knowledge of the evolution of the idea of property would embody, in some respects, the most remarkable portion of the mental history of mankind.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.