Property Quotes - Page 28

• The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.

  Daniel Webster

  Government, Hands, Law

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.45, Beard Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• I think people think I spend loads but I very rarely treat myself. I could splash out on lots of things but I put my money into properties.

  Amy Childs

  Thinking, People, Treats

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance.

  Amy Childs

  Parent, Over You, Used

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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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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• We see films all the time, whether they have access to all kinds of intellectual property or artifacts, and the one thing that they don't get is story. So I think whether you're talking about a biopic or an action film or a science-fiction film that has all the CGI in the world, if you're not trying to connect with an audience, it doesn't really matter.

  John Ridley

  Thinking, Talking, Intellectual

  Source: blogs.indiewire.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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• 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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• 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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• Truth is not private property.

  Saint Augustine

  Truth Is, Private Property

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• Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged; men would walk more safely by day; every pillow would be more inviolate by night; property, life, and character held by a stronger tenure; all rational hopes respecting the future brightened.

  Horace Mann

  School, Character, Night

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.15

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• We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Land, Class, Demand

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• I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

  Heinrich Heine

  Regret, Men, Wife

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• Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

  John Updike

  Land, Littles, Towns

  John Updike (1984). “The witches of Eastwick”, Fawcett

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• Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

  Hsing Yun

  Reality, Views, Knives

  Hsing Yun (2016). “Describing the Indescribable: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Luxury, Growth

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• It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Riches, Ruins, Wealth

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• I shall argue that it is the capital stock from which we derive satisfaction, not from the additions to it (production) or the subtractions from it (consumption): that consumption, far from being a desideratum, is a deplorable property of the capital stock which necessitates the equally deplorable activity of production: and that the objective of economic policy should not be to maximize consumption or production, but rather to minimize it, i.e. to enable us to maintain our capital stock with as little consumption or production as possible.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Littles, Satisfaction, Arguing

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• The power to gossip is more democratically distributed than power, property, and income, and, certainly, than the freedom to speak openly.

  James C. Scott

  Gossip, Income, Speak

  James C. Scott (1990). “Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts”, p.142, Yale University Press

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• All property is theft, except mine.

  Terry Pratchett

  Theft, Mines

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Going Postal: (Discworld Novel 33)”, p.418, Random House

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• Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property.

  Nancy Leveson

  Safety, Components

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• The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

  James Otis

  Men, Consent, Persons

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• The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Soldier, Accessories, Body

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