Quotes About Ownership

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom.

Puede que obtengamos una victoria, pero los ángeles caídos no lo van a admitir jamás. De modo que tendremos que reclamar esa victoria incluso después de haberla ganado. Tenemos que afirmar que nos pertenece y que nadie nos la puede arrebatar.

From that first moment, in a way she could never explain, the Meadows claimed her and made her their own.

Love still owned him, steered him, drew him to itself.

Memories represent power to people who are oppressed, for while they cannot control much of what occurs in their lives, they can own their own memories.

Then he took me to look at the Maastricht animal, still today one of the world's most famous fossils. (Though the Netherlands has repeatedly asked for it back, the French have held on to it for more than two hundred years.)

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

I recall how upset Josie was. Ready to gouge and fight that-there time over at Bethel Church.' 'A man's that got it in head to own a place… got get-up in his hide… Beyond that under their shirts they're all just alike. In the dark you couldn't know one from the next.

Whatever you have lost there are more of, just not yours.

Veblen espoused the Veblenian opinion that wanting a big house full of cheaply produced versions of so-called luxury items was teh greatest soul-sucking trap of modern civilization, and that these copycat mansions away from the heart and soul of a city had ensnared their overmortgaged owners - yes, trapped and relocated them like pests.

The story of my life can be told in silver: in chocolate mills, serving spoons, and services for twelve. The story of my life has nothing to do with me. The story of my life is things. Things that aren't mine, that won't ever be mine. It's all I've ever known. I wish it wasn't.

Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can't hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others' lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.

There was nothing different about the story – except that it was his.

national self-determination ("no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty as if they were property")

Diogenes's quick wit and, dare we say it, cynical outlook disguised a first-class intellect focused on proving a single principle: that we have to own nothing, absolutely nothing, to be truly free.

In fact, in eighteenth-century English, the language of Kames's works, property meant the same as propriety: those things that are proper to me, and to me alone. To Kames and his followers, including Hume and Adam Smith, to own things is in fact to own myself. Property makes me a whole and complete human being.

to own things is in fact to own myself. Property makes me a whole and complete human being.

We establish government precisely to put a check on other people's avidity for our personal goods. Where property is, laws and government follow, not out of keen desire for them, but out of necessity.

The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

I will never possess my hand.