If a city or state refuses to take the actions necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then I will deploy the United States military and quickly solve the problem for them. – Donald Trump Threatening use of military force to quell unrest over police brutality and racism.
Because animals are property, we consider as ‘humane treatment’ that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans. – Gary L. Francione
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology. – Helena Blavatsky
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them. – Henry David Thoreau
The slaves of socialism are slaves, but they are no one’s property and therefore no one’s loss. – George Reisman
It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States. – Jefferson Davis
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. – James Madison
Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts. – Joseph Stalin
The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It’s much more about the studio already having a property that has a marketable concept and then hiring the director on board. – James Gray
So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. – Ibrahim Rugova
No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia. – Alvaro Uribe
We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property. – Cornel West
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. – Johann Most
Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property. – Barbara Castle
Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property. – Cliff Richard
The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word ‘No.’ – Bob Barr
We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours’ notice we’d have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn’t leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through. – Bill Bruford
Marriage finally became acceptable to the churches when laws were established that could make it a means of depriving women of incomes and property, and making wives the equivalent of slaves. – Barbara G. Walker
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities. Ability is not a fixed property; there is huge variablitiy in how you perform. – Albert Bandura
I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. – Barack Obama