Property Quotes - Page 21

• Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Clothes, Want

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Would Be, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.249, Xist Publishing

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• Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Moving, Simplicity, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Henry David Thoreau: Walden”, p.64, Library of America

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• It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Health, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Enjoy, Enjoyment

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.124, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us understand that the equitable rule is, that no one should take more than his share, let him be ever so rich.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Law, Wealth, Rich

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1173, Delphi Classics

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• It is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Law, Body

  Alfred C. Kinsey (1998). “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”, p.4, Indiana University Press

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• Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio of owners and of owning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rights, Government, Demand

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• There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame when a man exhibits theevidences of large property, as if after all it needed apology. But the Englishman has pure pride in his wealth, and esteems it a final certificate. A coarse logic rules throughout all English souls: if you have merit, can you not show it by your good clothes and coach and horses?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Horse, Apology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.268, Graphic Arts Books

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• The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Work, Home, Differences

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

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• The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Slavery, Dull

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1233, Delphi Classics

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• Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Doors, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.631, Modern Library

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• Europe resolved a great problem-the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there. Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Strong, Party, Europe

  Friday sermon on International Jerusalem Day, October 5, 2007.

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• I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

  Gore Vidal

  Party, Wings, Two

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• It is strange that we know so little about the properties of numbers. They are our handiwork, yet they baffle us; we can fathom only a few of their intricacies. Having defined their attributes and prescribed their behavior, we are hard pressed to perceive the implications of our formulas.

  James R Newman

  Numbers, Littles, Strange

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• The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Military, War, Struggle

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• Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.

  Robert H. Jackson

  War, Power, Long

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• The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation, no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel is, in truth, a "personal" right.

  Potter Stewart

  Truth, Speaks Out, Law

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• Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Mercy, Fortune, Probity

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• Historically different groups find different things in each comics, as with *X-Men*. Gay readers find parallels to living a closeted lifestyle or choosing to come out and be openly gay. Black readers find a relevance to their lives growing up in America as a black guy. Picked-on brainy kids find a metaphor for being an outsider. It's a simple enough, and direct enough metaphor that it has different shades for different people. And so each reader to some degree gets out of it what they bring to it. That's one of the things I think that makes *X-Men* such a strong property.

  Tom Brevoort

  Strong, Growing Up, Kids

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• No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit.

  Mark Twain

  Atheist, Men, Church

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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• I have always liked real estate; farm land, pasture land, timber land and city property. I have had experience with all of them. I guess I just naturally like ‘the good Earth,’ the foundation of all our wealth.

  Jesse H. Jones

  Real, Land, Cities

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• These substances function as unspecific amplifiers that increase the energetic niveau in the psyche and make the deep unconscious dynamics available for conscious processing. This unique property of psychedelics makes it possible to study psychological undercurrents that govern our experiences and behaviors to a depth that cannot be matched by any other methods and tools available in modern mainstream science. In emotional and psychosomatic disorders, for positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

  Stanislav Grof

  Unique, Emotional, Personality

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• The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us.

  Ronald Reagan

  Appreciation, Adventure, Past

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• Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts against coronary heart disease were first recognized in the early 1990s, and a strong body of literature has followed, confirming these original findings.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Strong, Heart, Nuts

  "Heart Health: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Joel Fuhrman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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