#property

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

#communist #desire #elements #fact #fatal

One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#daughters #horses #i #live #observe

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#men #own #owns #property #rich

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#been #earth #given #god #living

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. ↗

— James Madison

#hatred #labor #luxury #other #pride

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she as extracted herself from the world to stand alone in the studio, a tremendous array of faculties and mind-states may well attend her creativity. ↗

— Lewis Hyde

#intellectual-property #art

National honor is the national property of the highest value. ↗

— James Monroe

#honor #national #property #value

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

As 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

#his #man #may #property #right