Property Quotes - Page 34

• I have to have a working knowledge of light, and optics, film emulsions and their properties, and lenses, otherwise I can't create the shoots that are the vocabulary of the films. But it is not necessary for me to be a cameraman, I can hire a cameraman.

  Sydney Pollack

  Vocabulary, Light, Lenses

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws

  Voltaire

  Equality, Men, Rights

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• Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Taken, Responsibility, Law

  "The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina" by Gerda Lerner, Ch. 5, 1969.

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• Suppose a nation, rich and poor, high and low, ten millions in number, all assembled together; not more than one or two millions will have lands, houses, or any personal property; if we take into the account the women and children, or even if we leave them out of the question, a great majority of every nation is wholly destitute of property, except a small quantity of clothes, and a few trifles of other movables.

  John Adams

  Children, Land, Two

  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.8

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• Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

  Sam Harris

  People, Principles, Dangerous

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• A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

  Adam Smith

  Earth, Generations, Absurd

  Adam Smith (1964). “Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms”

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• Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master; and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the basis and foundation of our government.

  St. George Tucker

  Two, Rights, Government

  St. George Tucker (1990). “A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it in the State of Virginia”

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• There is not a more dangerous experiment than to place property in the hands of one class, and political power in those of another... If property cannot retain the political power, the political power will draw after it the property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Hands, Class

  Daniel Webster (1830). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.517

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• Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Politics, Economy

  Daniel Webster (1848). “Speeches and Forensic Arguments”, p.204

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• We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

  John Adams

  Land, Balance, Liberty

  John Adams, Frederick K. Sanders (1975). “John Adams Speaking: Pound's Sources for the Adams Cantos”

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• The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

  Adam Smith

  Safety, Maintenance, Tolls

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.477, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You definitely care about your character because you wear it and you're associated to it by all means and I love the change and spontaneity. At the same time, you know, acting is a profession and you realize that this character is not necessarily your property.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Character, Mean, Acting

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Antiwar protestors actually sabotaged and caused a huge amount of damage to military installations and military property during the war. I'm related to someone who caused some of that damage. I mean, it was real. I mean, there was a reason. I'm not defending it, but I'm saying it was not because they didn't like the politics of the protesters. The protesters were violent in a lot of cases.

  Tucker Carlson

  Military, Real, War

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2005.

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• You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.

  Rainn Wilson

  Writing, Character, Creating

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Political, Kitchen

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• Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the world. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest.

  John Adams

  Hands, People, Liberty

  "Discourses on Davila : A Series of Papers on Political History first published in the Gazette of the United States". Book by John Adams, No. 13, 1805.

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• I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want to deal with the situation at hand which is the ongoing killing on both sides. . . . . . . It's true that there's also much oppression of Palestinians in Arab countries, where Palestinians aren't allowed to vote or own property and are treated as second class citizens and pawns in the fight against Israel. But I'm not going to spend my time on this since there is isn't a whole lot I can do about it.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Fighting, Hands

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• It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.

  Hippocrates

  Healing, Doctors, Hands

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• Truth is not private property.

  Saint Augustine

  Truth Is, Private Property

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• The real University... has no specific location. It owns no property, pays no salaries, and receives no material dues... The real University is a state of mind. It is that great heritage of rational thought that has been brought down to us through the centuries.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Real, Mind, Salary

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• I think the term "intellectual property" should be avoided, not because it's a bad term, but because it mixes things up that shouldn't be mixed up. There are different forms, and they hardly have anything to do with each other.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Intellectual, Different

  "A Conversation With Linus Torvalds, Who Built The World's Most Robust Operating System And Gave It Away For Free". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 7, 2014.

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• Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

  John Locke

  Mistake, Thinking, Hands

  John Locke, Peter Laslett (1988). “Locke: Two Treatises of Government Student Edition”, p.400, Cambridge University Press

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• When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

  John Locke

  Degrees, Doe, Should

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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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• [O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Fashion, Unique, Simple

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