Property Quotes
+3If a man owns land, the land owns him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+2Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1Property is theft.
- Proudhon
+1Property is organized robbery.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Property has its duties as well as its rights.
- Thomas Drummond
+1Few rich men own their property; the property owns them.
- Robert Ingersoll
+1Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
- Bill Gates
+1The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.
- William James
+1Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
- Charles Caleb Colton
+1Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
- Calvin Coolidge
+1Abscond to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
- Ambrose Bierce
+1Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.
- Max Stirner
+1A culture without property, or in which creators can’t get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
- Lawrence Lessig
+1As 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
+1A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don’t get paid.
- Lawrence Lessig
+1The things you own end up owning you. It’s only after you lose everything that you’re free to do anything.
- Chuck Palahniuk
+1Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
- G.K. Chesterton
+1The property boom has made us all feel wealthy, but unfortunately it has lulled many of those nearing retirement into a false sense of security.
- Noel Whittaker
