Quotes About Ownership

I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.

The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody's private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

The first piece of property that I bought was in Tuscany in 1973.

Property is organized robbery.

People have to respect intellectual property.

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

Property is a nuisance.

Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

The right of absolute and irresponsible dominion is the right of property, and the right of property is the right of absolute, irresponsible dominion. The two are identical; the one necessarily implying the other.

People assume that we have certain rights based on property that may be different now in a digital world.

You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

The best car I ever had was a Mazda 626. I paid $72 for it. The guy told me if I towed it off his property I could do whatever I wanted to it. So I paid to have it towed to my house and me and my step-dad fixed it up and drove it until I totalled it.

Private property and the market system are good not only to promote innovation and to promote growth; private property and the market system are good for our personal freedom.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

So government acts as a safeguard of our property.

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined.

Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.