Top 484 Property Quotes

There is no ‘us’ and ‘them’; it’s an illusion. We are all human beings, and we all have a responsibility to support one another and to discover ways of wresting the power from the very, very few people who control all the cash and all the property.
Roger Waters
Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.
James Buchan
I usually point out that most loss of life and property has been due to the collapse of antiquated and unsafe structures, mostly of brick and other masonry.
Charles Francis Richter
Nokia’s industry-leading intellectual property has the potential to create significant value for our licensees and our shareholders.
Rajeev Suri
I invite you, citizens, to open your eyes and to give serious attention to the future. Reflect on the disasters which may ensue from longer obstinacy. Submit to lawful authority, if you wish to preserve the South untouched. Save your families and your property.
Toussaint Louverture
We’ve seen it time and again – Chinese companies don’t play by the rules, committing intellectual property theft and disregarding basic regulatory standards at the expense of investors. Not a single taxpayer dollar should be invested with these entities that have a clear history of corruption.
Tommy Tuberville
We believe in the individual. Government protects our rights as individuals and our rights as property owners. We come together as a community to ensure our protections and to ensure our individuals’ security. That’s where government comes in and why we pay taxes.
Trish Regan
It was hard to admit I had a problem when I still had money, property, prestige. How can I have a problem when I’m driving my new Mercedes, and it’s paid for, and I have a house at Malibu?
Edd Byrnes
People’s financial situation has changed, and they surrender their cats all the time, because they’re downsizing or moving to a property where they are not allowed to have pets.
Celia Hammond
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases.
Lysander Spooner
He has called for a repeal of the Fifth Amendment as it affects the right of private property.
Dixie Lee Ray
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
William Graham Sumner
I just play it safe when it comes to television because it is WWE’s intellectual property. But it is literally my legal name, like on my ID. My name hasn’t been Cody Runnels since I was 17. But it’s theirs. At no point would I ever want to go into a courtroom with a company I have love and admiration for.
Cody Rhodes
I was very taken aback and disappointed in Sheryl Sandberg’s public statement that if an individual did not want to continue to share their data with FB they would have to pay. To me, that sounds like a threat. Continue to let us use your property or pay?
Brittany Kaiser
I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It’s meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.
Helen Fisher
I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you’re not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
Jackie Cooper
The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.
Darryl Pinckney
I’m a human being I’m not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods.
Curt Flood
We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can’t be unique and universal at the same time.
Lewis Thomas
As the property market is very steep right now I think people should invest their capital in a mix of equity and debt instruments, through reputed mutual funds and maybe some in gold and silver. Regular savings are very very important.
Anupriya Goenka
We have directed the closure of P.R.C. Consulate General Houston, in order to protect American intellectual property and American’s private information.
Morgan Ortagus
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.
Cornel West
The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property they have not succeeded, but they continue on the path of destruction of the family and the nation.
Vladimir Bukovsky
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.
Johann Most
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.
Jack Kemp
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
James Madison
I’m not a tycoon or anything like that. Does my property amount to several million dollars? Of course it does.
Ehud Barak
The essential property of insoluble bilayers is that they optimise their area at fixed surfactant number.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
People have lots of money in super, but they have no money in the bank, and the super funds are not built to help people buy property.
Harry Triguboff
A fellow oughtn’t to let his family property go to pieces.
Anthony Trollope
People start to yawn when you warn them about a move toward socialism. It seems abstract. But if you discuss the issues that arise from high taxes, oppressive regulation, seizure of private property, and dictating of individual behavior, people understand them, and they reject them.
Charlie Kirk
Blumhouse Books is not an outlet for us to mine intellectual property for movies and TV.
Jason Blum
Women do two thirds of the world’s work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world’s income and own less than one percent of the world’s property. They are among the poorest of the world’s poor.
Barber Conable
Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation – not cynicism and combat.
Rick Perry
When it comes to China, there are genuine giants that need to be conquered and dragons to tame. Protecting intellectual property rights and leveling the playing field for international trade are serious matters that must be resolved. But that will happen through honest negotiation.
Neil Bush
It’s impossible for the government to curb property prices.
Carrie Lam
At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the ‘Financial Times’.
Marjorie Scardino
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
More people are working in jobs that are interactive technology based or find a basis in intellectual property.
Marsha Blackburn
It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that can cause violence or destruction of lives and property, we are no longer in control.
Yemi Osinbajo
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.
Bill Gates
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
Ezra Stiles
Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinv

Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They’re so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
D. J. Cotrona
You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property.
Russel Honore
The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
Salmon P. Chase
It’s no easy task to coach the national team. I never realised to what extent one becomes the property of the people.
Mickey Arthur
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.
Herbert Croly
Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessible systems for registering, tracking and protecting land rights, including customary rights and common property resources.
M. S. Swaminathan
It is not possible that one man can convert another into a piece of property, thus at once annihilating all his personal rights, without the most flagrant injustice and usurpation.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Real estate funded our first creative endeavors as teenagers and we were doing what we do long before the show ‘Property Brothers’ was pitched.
Drew Scott
In an economy where more and more value is in information – is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free – any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.
Mitch Kapor