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Medieval marriages were entirely a matter of property, and, as everyone knows, marriage without love means love without marriage.
— 1969 Civilisation, ch.3.
Government has no other end but the preservation of property.
john locke— 1681Second Treatise on Civil Government (published anonymously1690).
You know, those people - I think they should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them.
rod coronado— ALF 2003 (Sourced)
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
mary abigail dodge— Country Living and Country Thinking, Preface, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Never before in the history of our State have Oregonians had so much to be congratulated upon. No State in the Union is receiving more attention. Her agricultural products, her mild climate,her great natural resources, invite the immigrant, the capitalist and the pleasure seeker, while the sound basis upon which rest her finances, and the fact that within two years her taxable property has increased more than ten millions of dollars, clearly indicate that the State, in the face of a general business depression throughout the land, is in no danger of deterioration of decay.
Zenas Ferry moody— Governor Zenas F. Moody: Biennial Message, 1885. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State.
Europe resolved a great problem—the problem of the Zionist danger. The Zionists, who constituted a strong political party in Europe, caused much disorder there. Since they had a lot of property and controlled an empire of propaganda, they made the European governments helpless.
hashemi rafsanjani— Hashemi Rafsanjani, chairman of the Iranian Assembly of Experts: Hitler Wanted to Expel Jews from Europe Because They Were a Pain in the Nec. MEMRI (October 5, 2007).
— . Hitler Wanted to Expel Jews from Europe Because They Were a Pain in the Neck
Private property is a means, and neither its abolition nor its unrestricted right should be an end in itself
kenneth boulding— p.400 (Principles of economic policy, 1958)
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.
benjamin disraeli— Letter to Lord Grey de Wilton (3 October 1873), cited in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 5 (1920), p. 262.
Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.
sam harris— The Truth about Violence, "3 Principles of Self-Defense", November 5, 2011.
Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labour and live on.
thomas jefferson— Letter to James Madison (October 28, 1785)
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. To guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact.
james madison— "Property" in The National Gazette (29 March 1792)
As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital .
karl marx— Vol. I, Ch. 14, Section 5, pg.396
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.
ilana mercer— “Liberty and the Civil Wrongs Act,” WorldNetDaily.com, April 2, 2010.
In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily, and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand, for property belongs to man and not man to property.
theodore roosevelt— Citizenship in a Republic, a speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, France (23 April 1910).
If a Tory does not believe that private property is one of the main bulwarks of individual freedom, then he had better become a socialist and have done with it.
margaret thatcher— Article for Daily Telegraph ("My Kind of Tory Party") (30 January, 1975)
Christ is called the righteous & by his righteousness we are saved & except our righteousness exceed the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees we shall not enter into the kingdome of heaven. Righteousness is the religion of the kingdom of heaven & even the property of God himself towards man . Righteousness & Love are inseparable for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law .
— Isaac Newton, in Keynes Ms. 7: '"A short Schem of the true Religion'"
For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?
— Chapter 16, The "Thirdworldization" of the Russian Federation, p. 240
What are called 'public schools' in many of America's wealthy communities aren't really 'public' at all. In effect, they're private schools, whose tuition is hidden away in the purchase price of upscale homes there, and in the corresponding property taxes.
Robert Reich— American political commentator, professor, and author
The divorce of a wife who develops an aversion from husband and hates him, and surrenders to him her Mahr or some of her property so that he may divorce her, is called Khula Divorce The hatred must have reached a proportion where she would not allow him conjugal rights.
— Divorce chapter; 2537 (Sourced)
The causes of the multiplicity of the English laws are, the extent of the country which they govern; the commerce and refinement of its inhabitants; but above all, the liberty and property of the subject.
— Sir William Blackstone, Bk. III., ch. 25, p.
The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
— Confucius, cited in A Little Book of Aphorisms (New York: 1947), p. 185
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.
— Gail Hamilton, Country Living and Country Thinking, Preface.
There are anarchists of the right such as Murray Rothbard ( For a New Liberty [New York: Macmillan, 1973]) who defend private property and free enterprise.
— DeGeorge, Richard T. Anarchism and Authority, an essay in the book Anarchism by J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman, NYU Press, p. 108.
Whenever, in any country, the proprietor, generally speaking, ceases to be the improver, political economy has nothing to say in defense of landed property, as there established. In no sound theory of private property was it ever contemplated that the proprietor of land should be merely a sinecurist quartered on it.
— John Stuart Mill, "The Principles of Political Economy" Vol.1
Holism traditionally says that a collection of beings may have a collective property that cannot be inferred from the properties of its members.
— C. West Churchman (1979) The Systems Approach and Its Enemies, p.212
I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of property, the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is annihilated.
voltairine de cleyre— In "In Defense of Emma Goldmann and the Right of Expropriation", an address in Philadelphia (16 December 1893); Emma Goldman's name is mispelled Goldmann throughout the 1910 version. Some of this text is quoted as presented in Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre (1914) edited by Alexander Berkman
Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self -ownership and control of one's own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them provided, of course, that it doesn't violate the identical right of others whether the people around them approve of what they do or not.
— L. Neil Smith, and Rylla Cathryn Smith in What Libertarians Believe, Introduction: The Zero Aggression Principle
property isn't theft: it's nothing.
fernando pessoa— Original: A propriedade não é roubo: não é nada.
— Ibid.
