#property

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them. ↗

— Dan Glickman

#business #china #constructive #economy #got

The older view of the nature of heat was that it is a substance, very fine and imponderable indeed, but indestructible, and unchangeable in quantity, which is an essential fundamental property of all matter. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#fine #fundamental #heat #indeed #indestructible

It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures. ↗

— Lauren Holly

#being #camping #chases #frenzy #garbage

I just want everyone to know that 20,000 gun laws in the United States are unconstitutional. They infringe on your right to protect your life, the lives of your loved ones, and your property. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#gun #gun laws #i #infringe #just

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#completely #different #economy #even #give

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beforehand #caused #contrary #exist #existed

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#class #conspiracy #degrade #denied #enforced

A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#chance #change #does #fact #flood

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. ↗

— Euripides

#god #hates #men #ordained #possess

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

#i #i am #mine #original #personal