Property Quotes

Property, a fundamental concept in the building of societies, goes beyond mere material possession; it touches the essence of freedom, independence, and responsibility. Is it a natural right or a social privilege? This question has been at the center of debate for philosophers and legal scholars for centuries, and it largely defines an individual's identity and their relationship with their surroundings.

Every quote here is a cornerstone in the edifice of understanding property, right, the concept of ownership, and control.

Quote by Thomas Aquinas: It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme...
Quote by Thomas Paine: The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common p...
Quote by Abraham Lincoln: The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corp...
Quote by Karl Marx: Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it...
Quote by Thomas Paine: Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It ha...
Quote by Aristotle: Tools may be animate as well as inanimate; for instance, a ship's captain uses a lifeless rudder, bu...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the s...
Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien: I don't see why the likes o' theeWithout axin' leave should go makin' freeWith the shank or the shin...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satis...
Quote by Oscar Wilde: What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being ...
Quote by George Carlin: One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of ...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It i...
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Property is organized robbery....
Quote by Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be i...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, wh...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivis...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on person...
Quote by Thomas Paine: Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locat...
Quote by Thomas Sowell: What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?...
Quote by Mencius: Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind....
Quote by Mencius: People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure....
Quote by Theodore Roosevelt: Property belongs to man and not man to property....
Quote by Thomas Paine: Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds....
Quote by Karl Marx: Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may mak...
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli: And when he is obliged to take the life of any one, to do so when there is a proper justification an...
Quote by Voltaire: The spirit of property doubles a man's strength....
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civiliz...
Quote by Abraham Lincoln: Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good....
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident,
Quote by Will Rogers: I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hol...
Quote by Benjamin Franklin: No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to th...
Quote by Aristotle: Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one h...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the dem...
Quote by Abraham Lincoln: Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...
Quote by Thomas Paine: America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, ...
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal, in virtue of their access to reason, their rights in ...
Quote by Aristotle: Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; f...
Quote by Euripides: Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life....
Quote by Will Rogers: The trouble with land is that they're not making it anymore....
Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be ...
Quote by Ronald Reagan: The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know ...
Quote by Margaret Thatcher: I am much nearer to creating one nation than Labour will ever be. Socialism is two nations. The priv...
Quote by Benjamin Franklin: Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow....
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the a...
Quote by Thomas Paine: As property, honestly obtained, is best secured by an equality of rights, so ill-gotten property dep...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that propert...
Quote by Henry David Thoreau: To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather....
Quote by Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property....
Quote by Thomas Paine: When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich...
Quote by Mark Twain: No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave....
Quote by Joseph Stalin: Why will our elections be equal? Because neither differences in regard to property (differences part...
Quote by Thomas Paine: Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, th...
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli: So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfie...
Quote by Benjamin Franklin: Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to th...
Quote by Aristotle: It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special busi...
Quote by Will Rogers: The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't ...
Quote by Thomas Jefferson: Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labours and the produce of ...
Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli: Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony...
Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero: The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, an...