property quotes

• He would be setting up as a man of property next, with a place in the country. (John Galsworthy) [property]
• The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect. (Jimmy Carter) [right/property//analysis]
• The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. (John Locke) [men/society/property]
• Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. (John Locke) [government/start/property]
• Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. (John Locke) [property/right]
• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ( Aristotle) [property/desire/more/more]
• A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. (Samuel Butler) [property]
• No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. (Thomas Carlyle) [character/property/men]
• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man. (Thomas Carlyle) [fame/property]
• Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [respect/property/wish/property]
• Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. (Charles Caleb Colton) [property/truth]
• Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. (Charles Dickens) [property]
• As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [property/willpower/willpower/willpower]
• No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [property]
• Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [property/right/patience]
• Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [nature/property/right/patience]
• Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [truth/property/treasure/men]
• We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [universe/property]
• I have no concern with any economic criticisms of the communist system; I cannot inquire into whether the abolition of private property is expedient or advantageous. But I am able to recognize that the psychological premisses on which the system is based are an untenable illusion. In abolishing private property we deprive the human love of aggression of one of its instruments... but we have in no way altered the differences in power and influence which are misused by aggressiveness. (Sigmund Freud) [system/property/system/property]
• By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. (Sigmund Freud) [property/human/love/aggression]
• Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [feelings/willpower/property]
• An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. (Georg Hegel) [property/thinking/think]
• I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion. (Patrick Henry) [property/family/thing/more]
• Religion I have disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give to them, and that is the Christian religion. If they had that and I had not given them one cent, they would be rich. If they have not that, and I had given them the world, they would be poor. (Patrick Henry) [religion/property/family/thing]
• Labor diligently to increase your property. ( Horace) [property]
• Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state. (Thomas Jefferson) [property/right/state]
• When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. (Thomas Jefferson) [trust/property]
• Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. (Samuel Johnson) [property]
• 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) [property/life/matter/respect]
• The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts. (Abraham Lincoln) [power/willpower/property/government]
• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world. (Abraham Lincoln) [property/property]

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