Quotes About Ownership

Which cake is yours? The coconut one?" My head snaps up. "I would never buy a grocery-store cake for this.

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

Then there's the biggest problem of them all – the problem of being in an Audi TT when you are not called Angela. I do not know why it can be driven by only people named Angela, but that's a fact and there's nothing we can do about it. If you have a TT and you aren't called Angela, you have the wrong car.

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.

The democratization of manufacturing means that anyone and eventually everyone can access the means of production, making the question of who should own and control the means of production irrelevant, and capitalism along with it.

The future is as far from perfect and as full of errors as this baseball game, but at this moment, it's all mine. And I guess that's something

Henry observed when commenting on Zephaniah 3:17, "The great God not only loves his saints, but he loves to love them." God takes great delight in loving us because we are His very own.

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Responsible, who wants to be responsible? Whenever something bad happens it's always, who's responsible for this?

But [Ben Marcus] can't resist the urge to re-enact the great prizefights of the past--Kerouac vs. Capote, Barth vs. Gardner--as if what we really need, in 2005, is two white male writers fighting over something that can't be circumscribed, much less owned. Isn't it time we allowed the scorched-earth rhetoric of avant-gardes and ancien régimes to drift, like the tissue-thin sheets of an old aerogramme, into the dustbin of history?

There is a feeling that we are things in common not alone. That I am myself in terms of you, and you you in terms of others. Together we make a world and go on in this sea of days and months. In this picture no one is their own--everyone is everyone else; our bodies are the possession of our society. We might own things but never ourselves. Yet I think there is a different duty.

Money in a broker's account or in a bank account is not the same as if you feel it in your own fingers once in a while. Then it means something.

The last free place in America is a parking spot.

Even though it seems like it's big business and impersonal, and "they" take care of it, it really isn't. There is no "they." It always comes down to an "I" of somebody, and in many cases, it's a principal.

I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

Who was I if I had no one to blame for my life but myself?

Owning my faults is an easy thing for me. Learning from those realizations and breaking the cycle of making the same choices, that's the work.

Ancak, tam anlam?yla kendisi olmaya doÄŸru bir ad?m atmaya çal??an herkes, korkusuzluk yönünde yeni bir ad?m at?ld???nda, çok kesin bir güç ve sevinç duygusunun uyand???n? bilir. Yeni bir yaÅŸam evresinin baÅŸlam?? olduÄŸunu duyumsar. Goethe'nin dizelerindeki hakikati hissedebilir: Evimi bir hiçliÄŸin üzerine kurdum, bu yüzden bütün dünya benimdir.

Die Entwicklung der patriarchalischen Gesellschaft geht Hand in Hand mit der Entwicklung des Privateigentums

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

The worker, or rather his labor, was a commodity to be bought by the owner of capital, not essentially different from any other commodity on the market, and it was used to its fullest capacity by the buyer.

cilv?ks tikai tad apzin?s, kas vi?am pieder?jis, kad tas sl?d no rok?m ?r?.

M?s ar katru dienu vair?k mirstam, bet ar? ar katru dienu ilg?k dz?vojam [..] nekas netiek izn?cin?ts, un, kas neko negrib patur?t, tam pieder viss.