Property Quotes
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Property has its duties as well as its rights. (Quote by - Thomas Drummond)
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. (Quote by - James Madison)
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. (Quote by - Maria Edgeworth)
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. (Quote by - Robert Ingersoll)
Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
If a man owns land, the land owns him. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire. (Quote by - Horace)
A lawyer's dream of heaven every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. (Quote by - Ludwig von Mises)
The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything. (Quote by - From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk)
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache. (Quote by - Philip Wylie)
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. (Quote by - John Locke)
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. (Quote by - John Locke)
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. (Quote by - Henry George)
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Broad acres are a patent of nobility; and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is 4000 miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. (Quote by - Charles Dudley Warner)
My mother always said that every time you do a good deed here on Earth, you're storing up a treasure in heaven. Which means Mother Teresa's probably got some beachfront property up there and I'm up to a box of Milk Duds and a Pez dispenser. (Quote by - Robert G. Lee)
Property is organized robbery. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights. (Quote by - Potter Stewart)
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. (Quote by - Elizabeth Blackwell)
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. (Quote by - William James)
My body and spirit are the only things that truly belong to me. (Quote by - Carrie Latet)
Mine is better than ours. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction. (Quote by - Max Stirner)
When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake. (Quote by - Horace)
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. (Quote by - E. E. Cummings)
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work. (Quote by - Mikhail Khodorkovsky)
Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? (Quote by - Bible)
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all-friends. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. (Quote by - G.K. Chesterton)
Few rich men own their own property. Their property owns them. (Quote by - Robert G. Ingersoll)
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away. (Quote by - Anaxagoras)
