Property Quotes

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frederic Bastiat

The Law

I just bought a small condo overlooking the water. The water is in a cup, one floor below my unit. ?

Jarod Kintz

Each of us has a natural right -- from God to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two. For what are our faculties but the extension of our individuality? And what is property but an extension of our faculties?

Fr

Property is theft.

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.

Teresa of Avila

If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right

Murray N. Rothbard

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.

William Howard Taft

Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religious, learned and civil institutions as guards of property, and they deprecate assaults on these, because they feel them to be assaults on property. They measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Less is more.

Robert Browning

By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.

Sigmund Freud

Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their owning is not graceful; seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal their own dividends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Calvin Coolidge

Lay up your treasures in heaven where there is no depreciation.

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Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

Michel de Montaigne

Property is organized robbery.

George Bernard Shaw

The more we have the less we own.

Meister Eckhart

Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.

Lewis H. Lapham