Quotes About Ownership

Even jealousy is based on fantasies: a fantasy that someone else has what belongs to you.

Prawie wszystkie ludzkie nieszcz??cia bior? si? st?d, ?e cz?owiek chce mie? drugiego na w?asno?? i na zawsze.

Russians had not grudged it when the world war turned both the Atlantic and Pacific into 'American lakes,' but when these same Americans, who had taken all the oceans and who were building bases on their islands and shores, called Russia greedy for taking back what she formerly owned, this ranked.

But what is "public property" if not an oxymoron?

So, fuck you, fifty, I own you. You're my bitch.

If you have property, you can't be property.

Private property is the smallest unit of warfare - The Environmental Rescue Team Handbook

Families with nothing would sometimes sell their toddlers to indenture schools, where managers trained them to be submissive just like they were programming a bot. At least bots could earn their way out of ownership after a while, be upgraded, and go fully autonomous. Humans might earn their way out, but there was no autonomy key that could undo a childhood like that.

Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs?

We are the tenants, not the landlords, a temple priest once said at a weekly gathering. We only borrow the air we breathe and the food we eat and the water we drink.

Would you take credit for someone else's achievement when you had nothing to do with that achievement?" Ilya asked. "No." "Then don't take credit for someone else's mistakes.

Being human doesn't entitle us to grab what doesn't belong to us.

Why couldn't they just give the human female a bag of money and then pee on the building so that everyone would know it was theirs? This

Even John Wolfgard was coming over to help, and the Wolves hadn't done anything about moving into their own place except pee on the house.

In the theater, the attitude of righteous ownership deprives the audience of an encounter with the unfamiliar.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

How sweet to feel its helpless form Depending thus on me alone! And while I hold it safe and warm What bliss to think it is my own! To feel my hand so kindly prest, To know myself beloved at last, To think my heart has found a rest, My life of solitude is past!

I stopped watching. I forgot about Nudes. I lived my life, which felt like a switched-off TV. Something had gone through me and out and I could not own it.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

This is what the LORD says … "Fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you." ISAIAH 43:1 – 2

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.

Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.