Quotes About Ownership

Home, to many of the people I interviewed, is a good, comfortable feeling about the place where they live, and a sense that their place is going to be theirs for a while....Home is any place, any experience that feeds his soul "in some positive way".

All your cases, I thought, do not belong to us.

and then something woke in me. It wasn't just -- appetite. It was more permanent than that. I wanted to possess her, not for a moment but forever; wanted her to be -- as the word goes -- mine.

So far no one has claimed responsibility.

an intention that radiates out of you. It's humility and gratitude. It's about living inside the notes, and between them, and understanding that each of those notes may mean a completely different thing to each person in an audience. Once it leaves your fingertips or your lips, it's no longer yours. Maybe it never was.

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

We shared a daughter? I'd not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire, then I would not have to hare Esther with her anymore. I would have Esther to myself.

Wealthy people own more stocks and real estate than the nonwealthy.

They would fear having their ownership stake diluted,

Markets are natural outgrowths of human nature, and natural rights. You own yourself, and you own your labor—and no one has the right to remove that labor from you for the good of the collective without just compensation.

For professors, however, human life is not divine, and therefore man should be able to take it when he sees fit. Without a higher authority to answer to, life belongs only to the one who possesses it, and he or she can decide to end it.

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society," Rousseau wrote.

And what gives Professor Commoner the right to take someone's property and hand it over to someone else? Only if there were no property rights would such a thing be acceptable.

Di setiap masyarakat, distingsi-distingsi kelas berpotongan dengan pelbagai sumbu distingsi dan identitas, namun hal ini bukan lantas berarti kita dapat mengabaikan eksistensi mereka. Anda tidak akan menemukan kelas-kelas kecuali Anda sungguh-sungguh mencarinya, menanyakan pertanyaan-pertanyaan dasar seperti "siapa memiliki apa, siapa berbuat apa, siapa mendapat apa, apa yang mereka lakukan dengan itu, apa yang mereka lakukan satu dengan yang lain?

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

pues le pertenecía como una petaca, un mueble o una prenda de ropa, sin que nadie se la pudiera disputar; ¡y ella parecía tan resignada a ser petaca, y siempre petaca!

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Now I have a sheep and cow, everybody bids me good morrow.

invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3

A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.