Property Quotes

The best ideas are common property. (Seneca)
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. View quote
François Rabelais
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. View quote
Herbert Hoover
Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. View quote
Bill Gates
Property is theft. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence Abolition of private property. View quote
Karl Marx
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. View quote
James Madison
National honor is national property of the highest value. (James Monroe)
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. View quote
Andrew Jackson
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. View quote
Derek Walcott
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works. View quote
Steve Ballmer
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Property is only another name for monopoly. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. View quote
Heinrich Heine
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. View quote
Joseph Stalin
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. View quote
Adam Smith
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 four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property. View quote
Maurice Allais