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Property Rights Quotes

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
- Calvin Coolidge

The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum.
- Adrian Cronauer

As for relegated/delegated responsibility to ensure organizational software licensing compliance, management is still accountable when intellectual property rights are violated. If the safeguarding responsibility is assigned to an ineffective and/or inefficient unit within an organization, IT audit should recommend an alternative arrangement after the risks are substantiated.
- Robert E Davis

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
- Martin Luther King Jr

If China wants to be a constructive, active player in the world economy, it's got to respect intellectual property rights or it makes it pretty impossible to do business with them.
- Dan Glickman

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.
- Garrett Hardin

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights; government should never be permitted to take those away.
- Ernest Istook

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question.
- David Korten

The whole notion of land property rights in the Arab world is different from that in Europe.
- William Odom

The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.
- Don Rose

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
- Jeffrey Sachs

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
- Thomas Sowell

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.
- Potter Stewart

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.
- Malcolm Wallop

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