1.
Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.
Linus Pauling
2.
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
Norman O. Brown
4.
The measurement we get when we measure something is not a property of the thing measured.
Niels Bohr
5.
My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.
Max Stirner
9.
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it
Karl Marx
10.
We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.
Henri Nouwen
12.
The Earth is a farm. We are someone else's property.
Charles Fort
13.
Do all that you say you are going to do and don't aggress against other people or their property. That's the whole of the law. I can live with a law like that.
Doug Casey
14.
Civilisation cannot survive if it rests on a propertyless proletariat.
Ernest Bevin
16.
I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
Emmeline Pankhurst
17.
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
Sallust
18.
I bought a cheap piece of land... It was on someone else’s property.
Steven Wright
20.
Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
Ambrose Bierce
21.
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.
Dmitri Mendeleev
24.
Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.
Max Stirner
27.
Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.
Richard J. Maybury
28.
Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.
Russell Kirk
30.
Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
John C. Calhoun
31.
This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
William Ames
33.
Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.
Frederic Bastiat
35.
Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
37.
Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
John Adams
38.
Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
Ayn Rand
39.
The continued existence of society depends upon private property.
Ludwig von Mises
40.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean de la Bruyere
41.
AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
42.
The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general.
Friedrich Engels
43.
The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.
Voltaire
44.
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.
Pope Leo XIII
46.
I recover my property wherever I find it.
Moliere
47.
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
Samuel Johnson
48.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Lawrence Lessig
49.
My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.
Charles Dickens