Quotes About Ownership

Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run.

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!

Take the reins of your life in your hands every day. Get up and put a smile on your face, and feel grateful for this gift in your life.

An answering smile drifted across his tanned face. "What is mine, I intend to keep.

I am amused to see from my window here how busily a man has divided and staked off his domain. God must smile at his puny fences running hither and thither everywhere over the land.

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

Children do not constitute anyone's property: they are neither the property of their parents nor even of society. They belong only to their own future freedom.

You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

The fetus is the property of the entire society.

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

Las grandes posesiones eran una señal o un indicio de una existencia protegida, bien consolidada, inmune a los futuros caprichos del destino: se les confiaba el cuidado de la vida de sus dueños contra los incontrolables caprichos del destino. Como la seguridad a largo plazo era un valor primordial y un objetivo prioritario, los bienes adquiridos no eran para consumo inmediato.

As long as you hold onto wanting something from the outside, you will be dissatisfied because there is a part of you that you are till not totally owning...How can you be a complete and fulfilled if you believe that you cannot own this part [of yourself] until somebody else does something?...If it is conditional, it is not totally yours.

I used to get upset if somebody I didn't like loved a book I loved. That's MY book, I'd think.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. Nothing

Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

The key to your happiness is to...own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. [Otherwise] you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

With mindfulness you can see the real owner of things. Do you think this is your world, your body? It is the world's world, the body's body. If you tell it, Don't get old, does the body listen? Does your stomach ask permission to get sick? We only rent this house; why not find out who really owns it?

To those who had lived in Africa for millennia, of course, "there was nothing to discover, we were here all the time," as a future African statesman would put it. But to nineteenth-century Europeans, celebrating an explorer for "discovering" some new corner of Africa was, psychologically, a prelude to feeling that the continent was theirs for the taking.