Quotes about Property
Waste is the antiproperty that becomes the possession of losers. It is the emblem of the untitled.
— James Carse
This means that a peculiar burden falls on property owners. Since the laws protecting their property will be effective only when they are able to persuade others to obey those laws, they must introduce a theatricality into their ownership sufficiently engaging that their opponents will live by its script.
— James Carse
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
— Ayn Rand
Out here I had been putting what little money I had in Ocean Frontage, for the sole reason that there was only so much of it and no more, and that they wasent making any more.
— Will Rogers
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.
— Huldrych Zwingli
You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
— Abraham Lincoln
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
— Aristotle