Welcome to our curated collection of property quotes, where words paint pictures of the essence and significance of owning, investing in, and cherishing property. Throughout history, property has held a profound place in human societies, symbolizing security, prosperity, and identity. From ancient civilizations to modern urban landscapes, the concept of property has shaped economies, cultures, and individual lives in profound ways.
Property represents not only physical structures and land but also aspirations, dreams, and legacies. It embodies the fundamental human desire for stability and permanence in an ever-changing world. Whether it’s a humble abode or a sprawling estate, property holds stories of triumph, struggle, and resilience. It serves as a canvas for personal expression, a sanctuary for memories, and a cornerstone for future generations to build upon.
Below, we’ve gathered a diverse array of quotes that capture the multifaceted nature of property its joys, challenges, and timeless allure. Feel free to explore these words of wisdom, whether for inspiration, reflection, or to add a touch of elegance to your own projects. Property Quotes, where the echoes of wisdom resonate through the halls of human endeavor.
In terms of intellectual property, so many of the job creators I know are start-ups. In the IP setting, we can meaningfully improve on the status quo, and in so doing, we can help small businesses, large businesses, and those in between. Tom Perez
We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution. Charles Evans Hughes
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
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? Thomas Clarkson
Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. Steve Ballmer
In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one’s own property is seen as privilege. Greg Gutfeld
If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization. Ludwig von Mises
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. Isabel Allende
In the end, you’re trying to find God. That’s the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn’t matter how much money, or property, or whatever you’ve got, unless you’re happy in your heart, then that’s it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you’ve got that state of consciousness that enables that. George Harrison
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
I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself… I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. Roger Nash Baldwin
I’m a human being I’m not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods. Curt Flood
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality. John Dalberg-Acton
The church wasn’t an organization in the first century. They weren’t writing checks or buying property. The church has matured and developed over the years. But for some reason, the last thing to change is the structure of leadership. Andy Stanley
Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. e. e. cummings
The land on which the cattle grazed was communal property. It was owned by no one. It was nobody’s private farm. It was the common property of the people, shared by the people. So the practice of sharing was central to the concept of ownership of property. Oliver Tambo
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. John Jay
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. Milton Friedman
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife. Harvey Fierstein
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can. Samuel Adams
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. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. Calvin Coolidge
Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on. Tim Berners-Lee
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. Joseph Stalin
I get a sparkle in my eye when we talk about redoing a property soup-to-nuts. Eric Trump
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. Voltaire
Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child’s own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority. James E. Faust
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. Roger Babson
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. George Washington
Property is theft. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
I chose to camouflage my body into the environment because this way, people will pay more attention to the background’s social property, and the meaning of my body disappeared in this environment as an individual. Liu Bolin
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. Andrew Jackson
The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property – a set back for civilisation. Lee Kuan Yew
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. Voltaire
I’ve been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I’m in the mountains – my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I’m in, I’m in. Robert Redford
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Thomas Jefferson
I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests. Haile Selassie
Just as man can’t exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one’s rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property. Ayn Rand
The most important thing about intellectual property vs. creative expression is that copyright law was created not to stifle creativity but to encourage creativity. Shepard Fairey
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. Thomas Sowell
We throw to the winds the old dogma that governments can give rights. Before governments were organized, no one denies that each individual possessed the right to protect his own life, liberty and property. Susan B. Anthony
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. Jean de la Bruyere
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. Euripides
I am true to my own race. I wish to see all done that can be done for their encouragement, to assist them in acquiring property, in becoming intelligent, enlightened, useful, valuable citizens. Hiram Rhodes Revels
Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation. Ulysses S. Grant
Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we’re being taxed to death. Chuck Norris
In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of ‘the Haves’ over the human rights of ‘the Have Nots’ is inevitably called into serious question. David Korten
In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country. Marquis de Lafayette
I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. Barack Obama
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. John Adams
You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded. John Trudell
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. Walter Lippmann
Just reskinning games with our intellectual property is not an appealing prospect for opportunity. That isn’t something that creates long-term value for shareholders. Bobby Kotick
My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women’s clubs in my village. Women were able to organize and stand together. What inspired me most about their work was the power it gave them to assert their rights and the rights of their daughters, be it education or property inheritance. Winnie Byanyima
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. Frederic Bastiat
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. John Locke
I used to own two homes in Atlanta. But it was a lot of trouble. There are leaky roofs; you have to call people. It takes up too much time to own property everywhere. Now I stay at the St. Regis. I used to like cars a lot, too. I had 25 of them: Porsches, Ferraris. Aliko Dangote
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Where there is no property there is no injustice. John Locke
Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property. Richard Pryor
Land: A part of the earth’s surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. Ambrose Bierce
Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana. Bill Gates
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs. Charles Dickens
The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. Pierre de Coubertin
At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot – it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather’s land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family. Jack Bowman
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. Aristotle
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion. Emmeline Pankhurst
National honor is the national property of the highest value. James Monroe
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea. Hubert H. Humphrey
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. Alexis de Tocqueville
The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Property is organized robbery. George Bernard Shaw
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? Iain Sinclair
Our private property must be sacrificed. Dolley Madison
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it. William Penn
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. Helena Blavatsky
God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all. Saint Ambrose
Intellectual property is a key aspect for economic development. Craig Venter
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It’s a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you’re in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history. Bill Viola
As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. Adam Smith
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. Henry David Thoreau
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property. Karl Marx
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Gore Vidal
The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used. Ronald Coase
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man. Toussaint Louverture
The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. William Blackstone
The one thing you can’t ever forget – the playing field is the property of the players and the coaches. It is not to be used by some fat-butted announcer trying to make a name for himself. Keith Jackson
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. Robert Green Ingersoll
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States. Jefferson Davis
An offensive war, I believe to be wrong and would therefore have nothing to do with it, having no right to meddle with another man’s property, his ox or his ass, his man servant or his maid servant or anything this is his. Daniel Morgan
Globalisation, technological change, and the move to flexible labour markets has channelled more and more income to rentiers – those owning financial, physical, or so-called intellectual property – while real wages stagnate. Guy Standing
Being able to borrow against one’s crypto assets gives one options, when wanting to purchase a property, and aligns with my philosophy that real estate and tokenization will be a quadrillion dollar market. Brock Pierce
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
The spirit of the great outdoors and the spirit of America is freedom – let’s keep freedom alive by preventing woke bureaucrats from trampling on property rights with more land grabs. Lauren Boebert
It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men’s property, which they had not before, as individuals. Lysander Spooner
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
