Quotes About Ownership

Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Only that which cannot be lost in a shipwreck is yours.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

An atheist is a person who has nobody to blame when he screws up.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

Blame is the cowards way out.

In a crisis, don't hide behind anything or anybody. They're going to find you anyway.

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.

I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

The most important quality I look for in a player is accountability. You've got to be accountable for who you are. It's too easy to blame things on someone else.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion.

Ownership of the means of production, on the other hand, carries a power to which the traditional safeguards of our political institutions are unequal.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

to lend a book is an incitement to theft. A Reader on Reading p. 281

Já eu, raramente empresto um livro. Se quero que alguém leia um certo livro, compro um exemplar e ofereço-lho. Acredito que emprestar um livro é incitar ao furto.

We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with I, me, mine, that we can truly possess the world in which we live. Everything, provided that we regard nothing as property. And not only is everything ours; it is also everybody else's.