Quotes About Ownership

I do wish I could have given myself permission to really name and own the me of me earlier in life.

I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

Na propriedade, como em todos os elementos econômicos, o mal ou o abuso é inseparável do bem, exatamente como na contabilidade por partidas dobradas o dever é inseparável do haver. Um engendra necessariamente o outro. Querer suprimir o abuso da propriedade é destruí-la; da mesma maneira que suprimir um artigo do débito de uma conta é destruí-lo no crédito.

I have owned, I confess, thousands of objects. Even if today most of them are nothing more than memories, I continue to seek, to find, to acquire. Acquisition, being, for some mysterious reason, the most important act, like a gambler throwing dice. The idea of speculation has never crossed my mind, nor of "decoration." Collecting is for me both essential and completely useless.

la propriété, c'est le vol!

What, I ask, has the fixed and solid nature of the earth to do with the right of appropriation? (...) But the creator of the land does not sell it: he gives it; and, in giving it, he is no respecter of persons. Why, then, are some of his children regarded as legitimate, while others are treated as bastards? If the equality of shares was an original right, why is the inequality of conditions a posthumous right?

Property and society are completely irreconcilable with one another. It is as impossible to associate two proprietors as to join two magnets by their opposite poles. Either society must perish, or it must destroy property.

Mülkiyet h?rs?zl?kt?r.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Lycurgus did not regard sons as the peculiar property of their fathers, but rather as the common property of the state

Suddenly I realize that everyone in the whole world is, at the end of a day, staring at a dusky horizon, owner of a day that no one else will ever know.

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

kau harus bertindak terhadap siapa saja yang mengambil seluruh atau sebagian dari milikmu, sekali pun hanya segumpil batu yang tergeletak di bawah jendela. Bukan karena batu itu sangat berharga bagimu. Azasnya: mengambil milik tanpa ijin: pencurian; itu tidak benar, harus dilawan.

Adat perempuan dibeli; adat orang tua menjual; kalau harta sudah di tangan apalagi akan dipersoalkan?

Wanita budak paling baik hanya untuk pria budak.

The easiest way to ruin any country is to sell its public sector business entity to the private sector company.

Kärleken är ett helhetskrav, vare sig den är smärtsam oro eller lycklig åtrå... Man älskar bara det man inte äger helt.

A bad workman always blames his tools.

A young woman with an old man is really someone else's woman.

Go to the law for a sheep and lose your cow

He is the world's master who despises it, its slave who prizes it.