Property Quotes - Page 32

• The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.

  Niels Bohr

  Measurement

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• When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Men, Causes

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• I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

  Nina Dobrev

  Fun, Yoga, Want

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• For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Tyrants, People

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• Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
  Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

  Roger Babson

  Character, Judgement, Trying

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• Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

  Esther Dyson

  Land, Intellectual, Needs

  "Intellectual Value" by Esther Dyson, www.wired.com. July 1, 1995.

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• Most of our problems in the United States can be traced to a blatant disregard for private property.

  Michael Badnarik

  United States, Problem, Disregard

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• Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Connections, Links, States

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• Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment.

  Muhammad

  Mean, Self, Contentment

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• Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty.

  Robert Ringer

  Rights, Liberty, Doe

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• Inflation, being a fraudulent invasion of property, could not take place on the free market.

  Murray Rothbard

  Invasion, Free Market, Inflation

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1981). “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”, p.48, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Information, Clutter

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• I would suggest the taxation of all property equally, whether church or corporation, exempting only the last resting place of the dead and possibly, with proper restrictions, church edifices.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Church, Taxation, Corporations

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• Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.

  John Stossel

  Dream, Responsibility, People

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• A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Children, Sick

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.703, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.” News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.

  John Scalzi

  Philosophy, Political, Secret

  "I Hate Your Politics" by John Scalzi, whatever.scalzi.com. March 22, 2002.

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• The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Sprung Up, Sound

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.29, OUP Oxford

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• If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

  Edmund Burke

  Poor, Ifs, Prosperous

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• In the purer ages of the commonwealth, the use of arms was reserved for those ranks of citizens who had a country to love, a property to defend, and some share in enacting those laws which it was their interest, as well as duty, to maintain. But in proportion as the public freedom was lost in extent of conquest, war was gradually improved into an art, and degraded into a trade.

  Edward Gibbon

  Country, Art, War

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.33, e-artnow

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• The idea that a relatively fixed group of privileged people might shape the economy and government for their own benefit goes against the American grain. Nevertheless, the owners and top-level managers in large income-producing properties are far and away the dominant power figures in the United States. Their corporations, banks, and agribusinesses come together as a corporate community that dominates the federal government in Washington. Their real estate, construction, and land development companies form growth coalitions that dominate most local governments.

  G. William Domhoff

  Real, Land, Ideas

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• Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Law, Competition, Soil

  Andrew Carnegie (2006). “The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings”, p.15, Penguin

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• 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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• Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would sooner release its prey. A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

  Isabel Paterson

  Educational, Octopus, Political

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.258, Transaction Publishers

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• It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, People, Independence

  "The Law". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Special, Novel, Mediums

  "The week in books" by Giles Foden, John Dugdale, Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2009.

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