Quotes About Ownership

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot 'do'; they can only be done by; children who do not understand this often do wrong things, and then the dolls are hurt and abused and lost; and when this happens dolls cannot speak, nor do anything except be hurt and abused and lost. If you have any dolls, you should remember that.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

It's a libel to say that I use my newspapers to support my other business interests. The fact is, I haven't got any other business interests.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Borrowed books and umbrellas are seldom returned

What you really want is freedom. Your own tree, your own room, your own small place in the sun.

Tourists came around and looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose to live in didn`t bother them at all. The untied the door, opened the flap, and barged right in, touching our things, poking through our bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles my mind that tourists feel they have the god-given right to intrude everywhere.

Where land was controlled by noblemen and/or the Church in other parts of Europe, in the province of Holland, circa 1500, only 5 percent of the land was owned by nobles, while peasants owned 45 percent of it.

a basic component of individual rights is the right to own property.

Are we moving from a society where we ask "Why rent when you can buy?" to a society where we ask "Why own when you can rent by the hour?"

Collecting, especially of the classifying sort epitomized by stamp collecting, offered a means to seem to gain control of the world and of the past.

If possessions are viewed as part of self, it follows that an unintentional loss of possessions should be regarded as a loss or lessening of self.

We cannot hope to understand consumer behavior without first gaining some understanding of the meanings that consumers attach to possessions. A key to understanding what possessions mean is recognizing that, knowingly or unknowingly, intentionally or unintentionally, we regard our possessions as parts of ourselves.

Objects in our possession literally can extend self, as when a tool or weapon allows us to do things of which we would otherwise be incapable. Possessions can also symbolically extend self, as when a uniform or trophy allows us to convince ourselves (and perhaps others) that we can be a different person than we would be without them.

But I'll let you in on a little secret. I'm not going to send her back to her brother. Ever. She is my wife. She stays with me until the day she dies." Ethan's eyes lit up. "Ah, so you're planning to kill her.

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

So—why do we need a covenant? Because a written covenant makes our commitment real on a level that mere conversation does not. It provides a way for the group to claim shared ownership for their behavior because it contains detailed guidelines that help the group function together in agreed-upon ways.

Mountains are personal. They belong to the viewer, the hiker, the skier, the climber

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

Mistakes and Decisions: A person should never make a mistake, a bad decision, but if they do they should admit to it and except responsibility for the Proper and appropriate penalties, if its appropriate there are any penalties at all.

I'll only ever belong to you If you want me, I'll belong to you forever.

He more than once asked a prospective client, 'Do you realise that the only thing you can spend a hundred thousand dollars on without incurring an obligation to spend a great deal more for its upkeep is a picture? Once you've bought it, it costs you only a few hundred dollars every fifteen years for cleaning.' It was a revolutionary sales argument, and one admirably adapted to American royalty.