“Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?” LooksDoeRealUsedValuesHouseGainsPropertyAgentsLos AngelesBreakfastEstatesIrrelevantHitchcockEstate Agents Author:Bill Vaughan
“If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveHumansDonePhilosophyFallLeftI BelieveSidesDifferencesLinesSpaceRightsConditionsGainsConcernedPropertyAcquireHuman ConditionPlatforms Author:George Carlin
“Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom they gain--the property-less working class possess nothing but their title as human beings. Thus they can liberate themselves only by liberating all humanity.” HumansHumanityWinningHuman BeingsClassRightsMiddleGainsBasesPropertyTitlesMiddle ClassWorking ClassLiberating Book:Marx: A Very Short Introduction Source: Marx: A Very Short Introduction
“Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of whether the losses caused by the restrictions imposed are greater or less than the gains derived from the elimination of costly conflict.” FormTermLossGreaterParticularConflictGainsInstitutionsPropertyJustificationRestrictionElimination Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies the physical scientist with new instrumental means for discovering and interpreting phenomena of nature, which in their turn afford foundations of fresh generalisations, bringing gains of permanent value into the great storehouse of natural philosophy.” MeanMatterPhilosophyLawValuesTurnsInterestNaturalWealthGainsScientistFoundationPropertyPermanentPhenomenonDiscoveringAccumulationSuppliesCompoundsInterpretingGeneralizationCompound InterestNatural PhilosophyGeneralisationProperties Of Matter Author:Lord Kelvin
“What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.” MeanLawOrderTurnsWinningPracticePoliticianGainsVotePropertyCampaignsContributionDomainCampaign ContributionsEminent Domain Author:Thomas Sowell
“I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good things, the amount we will gain from export jobs is minimized, and the amount we lose in middle class incomes is maximized.” BelieveJobsLosesCompanyClassMiddleAmountIntellectualGainsPropertyGood ThingsChinaStealingIncomeMiddle ClassIntellectual Property Author:Charles Schumer
“In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you sell a property and make a capital gain, you simply turn around and buy a new property. The gain is not taxed. It's called "preserving your capital investment" - which goes up and up in value with each transaction.” RealValuesTurnsPayCenturyTaxesGainsSellsPropertyInvestmentDecadesEstatesTransactionsCapital GainsCapital InvestmentCapital Gains Tax Author:Michael Hudson
“Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.” PeopleLooksRealUseRememberCrimePaintingGainsPropertyOilAccessAdmireGraffitiWall And PieceOil Painting Author:Banksy
“...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.” MenWorldWholeCertainFightingGainsBlindPropertyHungerProfitWhole WorldSecureTigersBullsLovableJackalsUlcersProstateGastricBifocals Author:John Steinbeck
“Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at any rate avoids hatred; for fear and the absence of hatred may well go together, and will be always attained by one who abstains from interfering with the property of his citizens and subjects or with their women.” IfsWayShouldWellsMayDoeArtStillsWarTogetherSubjectsCitizensGainsHatredPropertyRateAbsenceInterfereArt Of War Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the end, inseparable. Those who would destroy freedom have only first to destroy the hope of gain, the profit of enterprise and risk-taking, the hope of accumulating capital, the hope to save something for one's old age and for one's children. For a community of men without property, and without the hope of getting it by honest effort, is a community of slaves of a despotic State.” MenFirstsChildrenEndsStatesAgeIndividualCommunityFreedomEffortDemocracyRiskHonestHonestyGainsPropertySlaveIndividualityProfitOld AgeEnterpriseInseparableRisk-takingPrivate Enterprise Author:Russell Cornell Leffingwell
“One can generally say this about men: that they are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you, they turn away.” MenTurnsBloodDangerSonGainsPhilosophicalPropertyOfferingFar AwayGreedyUngratefulFickleDeceiver Book:The Portable Machiavelli Source: The Portable Machiavelli