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Property Quotes (page 5)

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity. Simone Weil
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity. Tom Robbins
The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of... Howard Zinn
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others. Gordon B. Hinckley
He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it. He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. Harper Lee
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. Jane Austen
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age. Rutherford B. Hayes
She did not exist: she would not be born till tomorrow, some time after eight o'clock a. m.; and I would wait to be assured she had come into the world alive before I assigned to her all that property. Charlotte Bronte
Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe. Deepak Chopra
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 neighbor's, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. Voltaire
Spider Robinson quote: "Sexual intercourse vests no property rights."
Sexual intercourse vests no property rights. Spider Robinson
We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. Martin Luther King jr.
[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. Christopher Hitchens
Pat Conroy quote: "Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of..."
Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance. Pat Conroy
There is no wonder, no amazement, quite like that felt when something supposed for amusement's sake to be magical and mysterious actually manifests the properties imagination has assigned it in jest--when the toy pistol shoots real bullets, the wishing well grants actual wishes, lovers from down the street fling themselves into Death's bright arms from Lovers' Leap Gene Wolfe

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