Aristotle Quotes

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

Labor is, on the one hand, more and more furnished by a class; Property or Capital, on the other, held and controlled by another class. Here you have workers without property—the proletariat. There you have property without work—or capital…. The workers without property are excluded from their products, from the riches they create—which accumulate in the hands of the property holders, capitalists and large land-owners.

The paramount problem is not how to stop the growth of property, and the building up of wealth; but how to manage it so that every species of property, like a healthful fruit tree, will spread its roots deeply and widely in the soil of a popular proprietorship. The paramount problem is not how to crush, … or hamper the corporation, merely because it is a corporation; but how to make this new form of property ownership a workable agent toward repeopleizing the proprietorship of the country’s industries

I've got a condo in Miami, but I don't live in it.

Property is impossible.

Now property is part of a household, and the acquisition of property part of household-management; for neither life itself nor the good life is possible without a certain minimum supply of the necessities.

Owning a property is great as that's my base and the centre of my family life.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

I believe you got my property?

Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.

Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.

All property is theft, except mine.

The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.

People like to own things.

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.