The hunger for land: that great hunger which for more than half a century was to shake Russia and to throw her into a fever, body and mind.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

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...

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common...

In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks...

He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.

Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.

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,...

That which is worth telling is not worth having.

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of...

I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.

If the Pentateuch is not inspired in its astronomy, geology, geography, history or philosophy, if it is not inspired concerning slavery, polygamy, war, law, religious or political liberty, or the rights of men, women and...

If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.

Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust, and criminal

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the...

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. … That was the...

In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below Yami’s Under City,...

You have to accept Jesus Christ to become his property; but by default Satan owns you if you don’t have Jesus Christ.

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:1. Acceptance2. Understanding3. AppreciationRemove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it —...

Nobody is sure of his life, property and health when the parliament deliberates.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

the pursuit of happiness” during negotiations of the drafting of the Declaration, as a way to negate the black slaves’ right to property.

I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discouraged from placing shares at this time.

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual’s cash flow and wealth.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own needs, then only one way remains open to him: to make...

We own the things that claim that we are theirs.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties until there are signs that the U.S. interest rate cycle will end.

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

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...

My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’,my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’,my generation is saying this is my house I pay...

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must...

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.

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

In a battle between force and an idea, the latter always prevails.

Just as sex is a God-given instinct for the prolongation of the human race, so the desire for property as a prolongation of one’s ego is a natural right sanctioned by natural law. A person...

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

Settling other people’s land is an American tradition.

Bei vielen Menschen […] vermute ich eine geheime Verfassung, deren virtueller Artikel 1 lautet: “Die Besitzstandswahrung ist unantastbar.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.

People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.