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Yes, well... I suppose the man who owns nothing is free."
Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them. — Sigrid Undset
Gunnulf replied, "A man's possessions own him more than he owns them. — Sigrid Undset
The spirit of commerce ... renders every man willing to live on his own property ... & prevents the growth of luxury.
— Baron De Montesquieu
Man has a primary property right to his person and his labor.
— Adolphe Thiers
It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.
— Ludwig Von Mises
If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.
— Benjamin Franklin
The property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised.
— Michel De Montaigne
What a man has: that is, property and possessions of every kind.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
— Samuel Butler
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
— James Madison
The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Every man in my organization knows you and understands that you're my personal property,
— Janet Evanovich
We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill ... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.
— Esther Forbes
But I deny that the Constitution recognizes property in man.
— William H. Seward
For how can a man without property know the ache of ownership?
— John Steinbeck
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
— Francois Rabelais
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
— Winston Churchill
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
— Thomas Carlyle
Driving forward is the chief characteristic of western man since the Sumerians. His dread triad of vices is property-holding, voraciousness, and lust.
— Antonio Gramsci
Existence, faculties, assimilation - in other words, personality, liberty, property - this is man.
— Frederic Bastiat
Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.
— Robert Dale Owen
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
— Booker T. Washington
In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.
— George Sweeting
The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
— Theodor Adorno
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Now is the time when men work quietly in the fields and women weep softly in the kitchen; the legislature is in session and no man's property is safe.
— Daniel Webster
Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
She is either male property (Mrs.), wannabe male property (Miss), or man-hating harpy (Ms.).
— Sarah Vowell
Man cannot exist without work, without legal, natural property. Depart from these conditions, and he becomes perverted and changed into a wild beast.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.
— William Faulkner
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.
— Heinrich Heine
Every man's disease is his personal property.
— Alonzo M. Clark
A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
— Gideon John Tucker
Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.
— Henry George
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
— Zora Neale Hurston
No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all parts, that is, the poet.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson