Property Quotes

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all it be nominally that of

Friedrich A. Hayek

The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.

Henry David Thoreau

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.

Alexis de Tocqueville

When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Alice Paul

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

Natalie Clifford Barney

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Philip Wylie

Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.

Proverb

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

James Madison

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Chief Seattle

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntingdon

How many are the things I can do without!

Socrates

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

Joan Didion

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

The three most important factors in buying a home are, location, location, location!

Source Unknown

To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.

Bhagavad Gita

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.

Ken Keyes Jr.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

John Locke