Quotes About Ownership

As an actor, we always want people to write about us and talk about us. And when they are actually writing, then we say, 'Don't write about this.' I am an actor; I am a public property. I don't own myself; public owns me.

The law of property determines who owns something, but the market determines how it will be used.

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.

Our industry is full of all sorts of eccentricities and one of them is owning property.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

There is a deliberate and quite outspoken attack on the whole idea of people owning private property.

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can take from you.

Sally is my wife, but not my chattel or my property.

I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods.

The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value' rather than 'exchange value.' It does not exist to generate profits.

There's always something that needs attention when you own a property.

I'm public property, the public put me where I am. They own me.

I would want to own property in Bespin.

A lot of times when a film is a success, the fans of that film take ownership of it - it becomes their property.

There's a difference between buying a few places yourself and getting into the property game.

Defence for me is so important because I do not want anyone to trespass and invade my property because that goal is my property.

There are a couple things that I could be doing, maybe owning a coffee shop or work in construction, building houses back in Nashville or British Columbia. I've also thought about being a property owner which would give me income and allow me to fix and maintain those properties to keep me busy.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

The Industry's at war. I think it's about control. You can make all of the financial arguments that the industry has been shooting itself in the foot, but it is an industry built on a foundation of ownership and exploitation of intellectual property rights.