“Notwithstanding the fact that the most innovative and progressive space we've seen - the Internet - has been the place where intellectual property has been least respected. You know, facts don't get in the way of this ideology.” KnowsWayHas BeensFactsSpaceInternetIntellectualPropertyIdeologyProgressiveInnovativeIntellectual Property Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Investor demand for distressed property has been healthy, as rents rise to levels that can cover investors' costs while they wait for properties to appreciate. Giving investors a small tax break should further juice up demand, supporting prices for distressed homes and the market in general.” GivingShouldHas BeensHomeWaitingLevelsBreakHealthyCostDemandTaxesAppreciatePropertyInvestorsJuiceGiving InTax Breaks Author:Mark Zandi
“If the item of stolen property had been anything other than a book, it would have been confiscated. But a book is different - it is not just a material possession but the pathway to an enlightened mind, and thence to a well-ordered society.” IfsMindWellsHas BeensBookDifferentMaterialsPropertyPossessionEnlightenedStolenItemsPathwaysMaterial Possessions Book:The Diamond Age Source: The Diamond Age
“A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.” Has BeensCommonCrimeMajorityPropertyViolentAssaultDowntownRobberyViolent CrimesBurglaryLarceny Author:Greg Smith
“Many writers claim that nearly all crime is caused by economic conditions, or in other words that poverty is practically the whole cause of crime. Endless statistics have been gathered on this subject which seem to show conclusively that property crimes are largely the result of the unequal distribution of wealth. But crime of any class cannot be safely ascribed to a single cause. Life is too complex, heredity is too variant and imperfect, too many separate things contribute to human behavior, to make it possible to trace all actions to a single cause.” HumansHas BeensWholeShowsSeemsActionLife IsCausesWealthResultsClassPovertyEconomicConditionsSubjectsCrimeBehaviorClaimsPropertyComplexesEndlessStatisticsImperfectHuman BehaviorDistributionHeredityDistribution Of Wealth Author:Clarence Darrow
“Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.” Has BeensMadeStupidObjectsIntellectualPropertySensesReplacedPrivate Property Book:Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts' Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'
“I grew up in Pittsburgh, where you couldn't even see the noon sun in the sky, and that whole city was cleaned up without the federal government needing to be involved. I think we would have been much better served from the start if people would have better understood the principles of private property.” PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensWholeGovernmentCitiesPrinciplesSunSkyGrewInvolvedGrew UpUnderstoodPropertyFederal GovernmentNoonPrivate PropertyPittsburgh Author:Ron Paul
“I wasn't political enough to write articles about myself or go to cocktail parties, meaning that not only has my art been pirated and my intellectual property rights stolen, but my work has been misrepresented.” WritingHas BeensArtEnoughPoliticalPartyRightsIntellectualArt IsPropertyArticlesStolenCocktailsProperty RightsPlagiarismIntellectual PropertyCocktail Parties Author:Michael Heizer
“This withdrawal of theology from the world of secular affairs is made more complete by the work of biblical scholars whose endlessly fascinating exercises have made it appear to the lay Christian that no one untrained in their methods can really understand anything the Bible says. We are in a situation analogous to one about which the great Reformers complained. The Bible has been taken out of the hands of the layperson; it has now become the professional property not of the priesthood but of the scholars.” WorldHas BeensMadeHandsChristianSituationTakenExerciseMethodLaysPropertyAffairTheologyMade ItFascinatingScholarBiblicalSecularPriesthoodWithdrawalReformers Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.” Has BeensProblemSeemsActivitySolutionsResearchPropertyObviousCurious Author:Edwin Land