Property Quotes - Page 34

• It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

  Thomas Paine

  Race, Earth, Common

  Thomas Paine (1995). “Collected Writings”, p.398, Library of America

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• We are so accustomed to the miracle of private enterprise that we habitually take it for granted. But how does private industry solve the incredibly complex problem of turning out tens of thousands of different goods and services in the proportions in which they are wanted by the public? ... It solves these problems through the institutions of private property, competition, the free market, and the existence of money - through the interrelations of supply and demand, costs and prices, profits and losses.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Loss, Miracle, Competition

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• What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Winning, Order

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• ...human beings always have and always will seek havens where we are free to be productive and to keep the property we create.

  John Pugsley

  Humans, Havens, Human Beings

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• Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Limits, Spheres, Individual

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• We need to keep a very keen eye on our own government. It's getting too rich and redistributing wealth is a sure way of robbing us of our private property rights and other rights along with them.

  Richard Pipes

  Eye, Rights, Government

  "Property and Freedom: The Inseparable Connection". Speech at an "Evenings at FEE" event, fee.org. October 2004.

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• The State provides a legal, orderly, systematic channel for predation on the property of the producers.

  Murray Rothbard

  Systematic, States, Producers

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1978). “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto”, p.62, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and the general rule of law, we will all improve our economic condition much faster than when we are ordered around by bureaucrats.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Destiny, Law, Work Out

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.136, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Government, Opposites, Peaceful

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• Government today, far from protecting property, is its main threat.

  Roger Pilon

  Government, Today, Threat

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• Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

  James Bovard

  People, Achievement, Welfare

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.81, Macmillan

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• The 'blind trust' is an age-old ruse. You give a blind trust rules. You can say to a blind trust, don't invest in properties which would be in conflict of interest or where the seller might think they're going to take advantage from me.

  Mitt Romney

  Thinking, Giving, Age

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• Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.

  Rick Perlstein

  Running, Military, Communication

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• What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Sleep, Land, Cities

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• Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Running, Agency, Databases

  House of Commons Debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. February 26, 2013.

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• Once you've produced the scientific data that's necessary to make a drug into a medicine, you've gone a long way towards mainstreaming the acceptance of these drugs as having beneficial properties. And then the step to legalization is not that far behind that.

  Rick Doblin

  Acceptance, Data, Medicine

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• I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

  David Christian

  May, Way, Pieces

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• I bought properties inexpensively and made a lot of money. I began to think it was easy.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Easy, Made

  Donald Trump (2004). “Trump: How to get rich ; and; Think like a billionaire”

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• The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer.

  Karl Marx

  Self, Fundamentals, Accumulation

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.848, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In life, (the fashion world) is full of sharks. In this world the young girls lose themselves; become the property of others, live but for the job and their craziness...they don't know anymore where their home is. Many take drugs. It's strange. Perhaps the girls understand that this does not work for me. I don't have many friendships with other models. I respect them and enjoy working with them, but I probably would not invite them into my home. My house is like my heart, and I open it only to those with whom I have a close relationship.

  Laetitia Casta

  Girl, Fashion, Jobs

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• Maybe I'm overly pessimistic, but most of Africa is a continent without much hope for its people... What [Africa] needs, the West cannot give. ...what Africans need is personal liberty...[and] guarantees of private property rights and rule of law.

  Walter E. Williams

  Law, Rights, People

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• Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychics, Mind, Matter

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• The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

  Terence McKenna

  Unique, Self, Molecules

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• Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world-or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property-or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons-or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, War, Fighting

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.294, Pan Macmillan

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• As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is to let them grow up into young thugs who have to be sent to prison, not to mention the savings in the wear and tear on the nerves, property, and safety of the rest of the citizenry.

  Molly Ivins

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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