#proper

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#day #get #hours #nba #paid

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life. ↗

— Robert Fraser

#beside #between #kept #larger #life

A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#capitalism #commerce #goods #property #theft

I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country. ↗

— Robert A. Brady

#armed services #asking #because #country #died

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of success. So, it's a difficult task. ↗

— George Soros

#comes #consequences #criterion #different #different people

Lady Rowena gasped in horror at the sight of Lord Raoul's majestic purple-helmeted warrior of love. ↗

— Katie MacAlister

#love

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly. ↗

— Sting

#big problem #either #i #like #listen

Throughout the world what remains of the vast public spaces are now only the stuff of legends: Robin Hood’s forest, the Great Plains of the Amerindians, the steppes of the nomadic tribes, and so forth… Rousseau said that the first person who wanted a piece of nature as his or her own exclusive possession and transformed it into the transcendent form of private property was the one who invented evil. Good, on the contrary, is what is common. ↗

— Antonio Negri

#empire #evil #good #private-property #nature

the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of those owned communally; they exercise care over common property only in so far as they are personally affected. ↗

— Aristotle

#respect