Quotes About Ownership

Property, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

Complaining is a form of taking.

The eyes have a property in things and territories not named in any title-deeds, and are the owners of our choicest possessions.

Fucking mine, you hear me? Mine—no one else's, you're fucking mine and I fucking want you. I want you, and I'm taking you, and I'm never giving you back!

that one thing I have control over? That shit is mine.

I've named everything that I've ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.

Create multi-levels in your home. Leave half a shelf empty, so Kitty has a place to perch and claim her place.

According to the 2013-2014 National Pet Owners Survey, there are 86.4 million cats kept in 45.3 percent of U.S. households, a number expected to rise.

Life is too short to attend to other men's work. It takes all my care and attention to look after mine own.

To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

It is not customary to love what one has

as regards ownership the right of the first occupier is uncertain and badly founded. The right of conquest, on the other hand, rests on more solid foundations. It is the only right that receives respect since it is the only one that makes itself respected.

Ne prêtez pas vos livres:personnes ne les rends jamais. Les seuls livres que j'ai dans ma bibliothèques sont des livres qu'on m'a prêtés.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away.

Todo es tuyo. A todo tienes derecho y cóbralo caro.

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.

People don't need yachts – they want yachts', in the words of a CEO of a top superyacht manufacturer.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.