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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Property

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood.
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
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.
Property is organized robbery.
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world.
Property is theft.
Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
The three most important factors in buying a home are, location, location, location!
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
Where there is no property there is no injustice.

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