Quotes About Ownership

I am doing the servant job in order for you to become the owners of Heaven

Sometimes I get so frustrated with folk talking about how busy the devil is. Own your mess! You might be the devil. Stop inviting MESS into your life and blaming the devil!

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

It's my world, I demand my respect. Give me your girl or get slapped in your neck.

...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

I know a lot of people who don't want to take responsibility for their lives. It's easier to blame somebody else when something goes wrong than accept their part in whatever happened.

Nunca puedes perder algo que es realmente tuyo, ni ganar algo que no lo es. El dinero aparecerá. Y si no lo hace, es porque nunca fue mío desde el principio".

What I own is my fortune; what I'm owed is my fate,

Sometimes, in political arguments with Palestinians, I would be told: Why are we arguing about who owns the land, when in the end the land will own us both?

I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny , as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it. This is what makes travel so utterly fruitless.

É certo que me influenciaram e são mais ou menos responsáveis pelo acto que cometi em seguida; quero porém continuar a pensar que esse acto é apenas meu, e ficaria especialmente irritado se o imputassem à influência directa de alguma filosofia existente.

A work of art is by no means the property of its creator.

This was the domain established in less than twenty years by the young man of promise. Then he had had almost nothing over which his fingers might close with a sense of possession, but because the lack had stirred no anxious irritation in him, all these things had now come securely into his grasp.

Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.

Today, the richest 1 percent own half the world's wealth. Even more alarmingly, the richest one hundred people together own more than the poorest four billion.

If we want to prevent the concentration of all wealth and power in the hands of a small elite, the key is to regulate the ownership of data.

But we don't have much experience in regulating the ownership of data,

Shepherds and farmers throughout history showed affection for their animals and have taken great care of them, just as many slaveholders felt affection and concern for their slaves.