Tom Robbins Quotes About Property

Quotes about: Property

• There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue.

  Tom Robbins

  Names, Aristocracy, Talent

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates”, p.61, Bantam

• From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels on every lot, and no matter how often it tossed the dice you just knew it would never land on Go to Jail, it would be forever passing Go and collecting $200.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Humorous, Air

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.220, Bantam

• 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

  Attitude, Opposites, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.138, Bantam

• What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

  Tom Robbins

  Decision, Compulsion, Barricades

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.138, Bantam

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