Quotes About Ownership

If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.

Oh, these rags and tags of other people's making! Would he ever be able to call his brain his own? Was there, indeed, anything in it that was truly his own, or was it simply an education?

Todos tendemos a exagerar el valor de lo que por casualidad nos pertenece.

The wound is mortal and is mine.

Unowned, the Fourth Brandenburg had an intensity of beauty, a depth of intrinsic meaning, incomparably greater than anything he had ever found in the same music when it was his private property.

Toda idea que llega a salir del limbo del pensamiento, y se vulgariza por una manifestación cualquiera, deja de pertenecer hasta al mismo que la ha concebido.

Who dares disturb my roses? Why did I say that

You can't be nobody's frien' an' slave both. How come, Pappy? 'Cause friend's don't own one 'nother.

He wondered if she also knew how strange and sad he found it to hear her talking--as so many others did--about 'usn's',' and acting as if se owned the plantation she lived on instead of the other way around.

He thought that it was impossible for a massa to perceive that being owned by anyone could never be enjoyable.

Markets concern property, and so it's essential in markets that somebody or something be able to own something.

The constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

If you did not keep your yard in reasonable order, then your whole life would be similarly untidy. A messy yard told Mma Ramotswe everything she needed to know about its owner.

Our possessing of our world is a temporary matter: we stamp our ownership upon our surroundings, give familiar names to the land about us, erect statues of ourselves, but all of this is swept away, so quickly, so easily. We think the world is ours for ever, but we are little more than squatters.

Yes, but not in chairs that don't belong to us," countered Mma Makutsi. "That's the trouble with this country, Mma—there are too many people sitting down in other people's chairs.

What we have, we all must lose—that applied to everything, even to that which we thought we had the greatest right. We were tenants of this earth—nothing more.

Edinburgh dogs do not have owners–too prosaic a term–they have comptrollers.)

Quand la pluie le traverse, c'est moi qui dois le réparer. Cela signifie que c'est mon toit, et que je suis responsable de ce qui se passe au-dessous.

nemo dat quod non habet.

Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after facing watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own

As one historian has neatly put it: The futures market is a place where "men who don't own something are selling that something to men who don't really want it.

The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.

There is a systematic tendency on the part of human beings to avoid accountability for their own decisions.

He wanted badly to tell her that he would never leave her that she belonged to him and always would, but that was not the truth. She did not belong to him. He