Property Quotes - Page 33

• We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.

  John Adams

  Religious, Father, Character

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 8: Letters and State Papers 1782 - 1799”, p.197, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• And even if you get shot by a stray bullet, you don't gotta go to no doctor to get it taken out, whoever shot you will take they bullet back! "I believe you have my property!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Believe, Taken

  "Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker". Comedy, Documentary, 1999.

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• I support copyright. I mean it is intellectual property, it is the thought process of someone and those things should always be protected.

  Jeff Mills

  Mean, Support, Intellectual

  Source: www.higher-frequency.com

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• I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Always Trying, Poetic, Essays

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• I'm interested in the fact that within science, you're dealing with properties of the real and physical world, and by using those properties you're really getting more in touch with the basis of reality and using that expressively.

  Marc Quinn

  Real, World, Facts

  "Marc Quinn interview: Just a load of shock? (2000)". Interview with R.J. Preece, www.artdesigncafe.com. September 15, 2009.

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• They were making a deal for a property that clearly was a property that we wanted to own, so we had to act, and act as quickly as we could, and make the offer more attractive.

  Jack Welch

  Inspirational, Attractive, Deals

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• Rather than setting property taxes on the value of land and improvements, I'd advocate a plan to set rates based on land values across the entire neighborhood.

  Mark Noble

  Land, Improvement, Taxes

  Source: www.columbusunderground.com

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• Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).

  Jons Jacob Berzelius

  Science, Ideas, Greek

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• You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Valuable

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Rights, Political

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Political Writings of Thomas Paine ...: Prospects on the Rubicon. Rights of man, part I. Rights of man, part II. Letter to the authors of the Republican. Letter to the Abbe Sieyes. Address to the addressers. Letters to Lord Onslow. Dissertation on the first principles of government. Speech delivered in the French National convention. Letter to Mr. Secretary Dundas. The decline and fall of the English system of finance. Letter to the people of France. Reasons for preserving the life of Louis”, p.310

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• Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

  James Jeans

  Life, Science, Atoms

  'The Mysterious Universe' (1930) ch. 1

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• War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Country, War, Mean

  "Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War". Book by George Francis Robert Henderson, 1898.

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• The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

  George Bancroft

  Patriotic, Government, People

  George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.421

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• By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.

  Cato the Younger

  Art, Hurt, Men

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• Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

  John Locke

  Freedom, War, People

  John Locke (1947). “Two Treatises of Government: With a Supplement, Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

  Adam Smith

  Reality, Government, Criminals

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• [A] republic . . . [is] a government, in which the property of the public, or people, and of every one of them was secure and protected by law . . . implies liberty; because property cannot be secured unless the man be at liberty to acquire, use or part with it, at his discretion, and unless he have his personal liberty of life and limb, motion and rest, for that purpose.

  John Adams

  Freedom, Men, Law

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.454

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• As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

  John Adams

  Family, Long, Influence

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.103

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• As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

  Ptolemy

  Soul, Honor, Body

  Ptolemy, Frank Egleston Robbins (1940). “Tetrabiblos”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Resistance to sudden violence, for the preservation not only of my person, my limbs, and life, but of my property, is an indisputable right of nature which I have never surrendered to the public by the compact of society, and which perhaps, I could not surrender if I would.

  John Adams

  Life, Nature, Gun

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.438

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• In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Women, Integrity

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.55, Routledge

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• And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

  John Locke

  Community, Design, Liberty

  John Locke (2009). “The Second Treatise on Civil Government”, p.77, Prometheus Books

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• It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Children, Exercise, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.74, Cornell University Press

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• Give the vote to the people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them.

  Gouverneur Morris

  People, Giving, Able

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