Quotes about Property
Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers.
- Thomas Jefferson
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
- Albert Camus
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ephron answered Abraham,
- Genesis 23:14
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
- Genesis 32:5
He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
- Genesis 32:23
You may settle among us, and the land will be open to you. Live here, move about freely, and acquire your own property.”
- Genesis 34:10
They took their flocks and herds and donkeys, and everything else in the city or in the field.
- Genesis 34:28
Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.
- Genesis 36:6
So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
- Genesis 47:11
Now the Israelites settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and became fruitful and increased greatly in number.
- Genesis 47:27