P Quotes
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“Properly understood, then, the scriptures counsel us to be virtuous not because romantic love is bad, but precisely because romantic love is so good. It is not only good; it is pure, precious, even sacred and holy.”
“Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters.”
“Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.”
Source: A Theory of Justice
“Properly used, regret is a tool that can help you take actions to prevent its further accumulation.”
Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
“Properly utilizing Ai allows for better choices on the most efficient use of resources and frees us from many tedious, repetitive tasks. An additional benefit will be what some call visibility or what I call transparency. While society may never be equal, it can have equal opportunity for all to create and succeed. Transparency helps build trust in the system.”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“Properly, we should read for power.”
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
“Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.”
“Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.”
Source: A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches
“Property belongs to man and not man to property.”
“Property breeds lawyers, I said, forbearing to add a belief that unfortunately property now seemed the only thing palpable enough to demand the respect of governments, and perhaps was the generating clout against encroachments on the spiritual protections for speech, assembly, and so on. It might turn out that without the right to possess we are not sure we really have the right to speak and to be.”
Source: Salesman in Beijing
“Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.”
“Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.”
Source: Blindsight
“Property disputes don’t destroy land, they destroy families, wealth, and peace. The real war is fought in courtrooms, not on fields.”
Source: Indian Property & Real Estate Law for A Common Man: Master basics of Property Law in 2 hours.
“Property does not exist because there are laws, but laws exist because there is property.”
“Property exists by grace of the law. It is not a fact, but a legal fiction.”
“Property in everyday life, is the right of control.”
“Property in man, always morally unjust, has become nationally dangerous.”
“Property is a nuisance.”
“Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.”
“Property is impossible.”
Source: What is Property?
“Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.”
Source: The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2
“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.”
Source: The Trumpet of Conscience
“Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff.”
“Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“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.”
“Property is only another name for monopoly.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy
“Property is organized robbery.”
Source: Major Barbara
“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”
“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.”
Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila
“Property is the foundation of every right we have, including the right to be free. Every legal claim, after all, is a claim to something-either a defensive claim to keep what one is holding or an offensive claim to something someone else is holding.”
“Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.”
“Property is theft!”
Source: Quest-ce que la propriété? ou Recherches sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement
“Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.”
“Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.”
“Property is, after all, a social convention, an agreement about someone's exclusive right to use a thing in specified ways. However, we seem to have forgotten this. We seem to think that property belongs to us in some essential way, that it is of us. We seem to think that our property is part of ourselves, and that by owning it we therefore make ourselves more, larger, greater.”
“Property isn't theft: it's nothing.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“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.”
“Property mistakes are like a bad haircut…they grow out in the end”
Source: RETIRE NOW! Your Blueprint to Financial Freedom Through Property
“Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.”
Source: Papers of John Adams
“Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the world. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest.”
“Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.”
Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations
“Property-owning democracy avoids [inequalities], not by redistributing income to those with less at the end of each period, so to speak, but rather by ensuring the widespread ownership of productive assets and human capital (educated abilities and trained skills) at the beginning of each period.”
“Property rights are the foundation necessary to explain the role of non-aggression. In other words, the non-aggression principle is simply another of way of saying individuals have a right against aggression from others as a result of property. Non-aggression alone does not tell us what property rights people have, or why they have these rights to begin with.”
Source: Private Property, Law, and the State
“Property rights can improve a woman's ability to stand up to violence in the home. You might think education and employment are important because they give women exit options, but property is as well. Give women equal property rights to inherited land, then they have an asset they can take out of the marriage. This gives husbands strong incentives to not beat them.”
“Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.”
Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation
“Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.”
“Property taxes allow the government to use your property as collateral for their loans.”
“Property taxes and eminent domain are examples of unjustly undermining private ownership. Property taxes ensure that individuals never genuinely own their land; failure to pay these taxes results in the government’s seizure of the property, effectively turning ownership into a form of leasing and renting from the government.”
Source: The Fallacious Belief in Government: Warp Speed Toward Tyranny
“Property taxes - particularly those which tax only or primarily the land and not the improvements - are the closest approximations we have today to community land contributions. For this reason, property taxes and home affordability rates - which is to say, land affordability rates - are inversely correlated.
Land contributions are necessary for the vitality of every community and city. For example, urban sprawl is a consequence of not capturing sufficient land contributions and thus enabling inefficient land use.
Community land contributions lead to a more intensive use of land and encourage the greening of a city's surroundings, as the existing population will tend to cluster closer together. Land contributions also encourage the restoration of blighted areas.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World