Quotes of: Property-rights Keyword

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

George Bancroft

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties.

Peter R. Grant

Property that endangers the safety of a nation should not be suffered to remain in the hands of its citizens.

Robert Dale Owen

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties.

Noam Chomsky

The bottom line is that weather events not only threaten private property and family budgets, but they also can decimate public resources and government coffers.

Matt Cartwright

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

Paul Dano

The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.

Neal Boortz

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

Joan Rivers

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

Mark Zandi

In education, they say either property taxes have to go up, or we'll have poor education - that's a false choice.

Scott Walker

In a polling conducted by the Wall Street Journal, 11 out of 12 Americans said they oppose the taking of private property, even if it is for public economic good.

Jim Ryun

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

Mencius

You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.

Russel Honore

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Henry David Thoreau

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

David Suzuki

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

e. e. cummings

Keep in mind that there are many neurotoxins in the world. Dozens of natural and industrial substances have neurotoxic properties.

Harvey V. Fineberg

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Jack Kemp

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

Stanislav Grof

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Thomas Jefferson

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Herbert Spencer