Top Property Quotes

And when the earth began to rumble and quake, as fear and frantic set in, he ran back inside the house past his wife and children, gathering all the valuables and things he thought of importance, and...

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Property Definition

(a.) That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.

(a.) An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.

(a.) The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.

(a.) That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.

(a.) All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.

(a.) Propriety; correctness.

(v. t.) To invest which properties, or qualities.

(v. t.) To make a property of; to appropriate.

You know that when a group of utility workers are withholding their customer service identification cards, they are likely engaging in some form of illegal activity at your home.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, pr...

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth. For the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish, and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to e...

It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the w...

The American real-estate industry believed segregation to be a moral principle. As late as 1950, the National Association of Real Estate Boards' code of ethics warned that a Realtor should never be in...

The most valuable real estate in the universe is inside your soul.

Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature,...

Real estate investing, even on a very small scale, remains a tried and true means of building an individual's cash flow and wealth.

My problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity

Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion.

Knowledge is a unique kind of property, indeed: you can share it with others, while still possessing it.

It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.

The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Libertarianism holds that the only proper role of violence is to defend person and property against violence, that any use of violence that goes beyond such just defense is itself aggressive, unjust,...

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 Commercia...

I am not speaking strictly of slavery here, but of that process that dislodges people from the webs of mutual commitment, shared history, and collective responsibility that make them what they are, so...