“The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.” NeedsLooksValuesWaterLandProductsSourcePureConstantPropertyValuableIncomeOwnersYieldPure Water Author:Bill Mollison
“There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.” EvilWealthGrowingFailingSourceOughtCapacityAbusePropertyCorporationsAccumulationGuarded Author:James Madison
“The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.” Has BeensWisdomPoliticsCommonEconomySourcePaperPropertyVariousLiberalismDistributionFactionsFederalistFederalist Papers Author:James Madison
“Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull us down. Music should be not only a source for political ideas but also a source of hope.” ShouldMeanIdeasPoliticalSourceMusic IsProperty Author:Dave Matthews
“If the resources of different nations are treated as exclusive properties of these nations as wholes, if international economic relations, instead of being relations between individuals, become increasingly relations between whole nations organized as trading bodies, they inevitably become the source of friction and envy between whole nations.” IfsDifferentWholeBodyIndividualNationsEconomicSourceResourcesRelationPropertyInternationalEnvyTreatedOrganizedTradingExclusiveFriction Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures.” PeopleIfsThinkingMenWantFeelsLongTwoBigsBeliefMistakeSkyAtheismStageSourceCreaturesLong TimePropertySpeciesPositive AtheismCoreMagnificentBetrayedDissatisfactionPrivate PropertyIndignationBig Mistake Author:George Carlin
“It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.” CertainIndividualNationsWealthProduceSourceTaxesResourcesIncreaseInstitutionsPropertyRichesContraryRuinsGoodsDespotismPreventingDepriving Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.” Has BeensFallPassionStrongCommonMankindSourceConflictPropertyVariousViolentOccasionsSufficientDistinctionMutualDistributionFactionsKindlesFrivolousPropensityAnimosityFederalistFederalist PapersUnfriendly Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788 Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788
“Forget land, buildings, or machines-the real source of wealth today is intelligence, applied intelligence. We talk glibly of "intellectual property" without taking on board what it really means. It isn't just patent rights and brand names; it is the brains of the place.” MeanRealTodayNamesWealthForgetBrainRightsLandBuildingSourceIntellectualMachinesPropertyBrandsBoardsReally MeanPatentsIntellectual PropertyBrand Names Author:Charles Handy
“It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.” MayStatesStrongCasesSourceTaxesPropertyLibraryUniversityAcademicComponentsFundingPublic LibraryTuitionProperty Taxes Author:Tom Peters
“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.” ImportantWholeFacesIssuesSourceIntellectualPropertyComplexesOwnershipIntellectual PropertyOpen SourceCultural Issues Book:Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World Source: Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World