Quotes About Ownership

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

Canek dijo: —Nunca te enorgullezcas de los frutos de tu inteligencia. Sólo eres dueño del esfuerzo que pusiste en su cultivo; de lo que logra, nada más eres un espectador. La inteligencia es como una flecha: una vez que se aleja del arco, ya no la gobierna nadie. Su vuelo depende de tu fuerza, pero también del viento y, ¿por qué no decirlo?, del destino que camina detrás de ella.

Mr. Morrow, IOI owns this network..." "Of course they do!" Morrow shouted gleefully. 'The own practically everything! Including you, pretty boy! I mean did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?

Mr. Morrow, IOI owns this network.…" "Of course they do!" Morrow shouted gleefully. "They own practically everything! Including you, pretty boy! I mean, did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?

These items were nothing but ones and zeros stored on the OASIS servers, but they were also status symbols.

Mr. Morrow, IOI owns this network.…" "Of course they do!" Morrow shouted gleefully. "They own practically everything! Including you, pretty boy! I mean, did they tattoo a UPC code on your ass when they hired you to sit there and spout their corporate propaganda?" ? Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

Female creatures owned the world, Howard thought. The earth itself was female. The shop was female. The females knew everything of beauty and desolation—he

He interprets the desires of the great peasant mass to be owners of land, owners of their means of production, of their animals, of all that which they have long yearned to call their own, of that which constitutes their life and will also serve as their cemetery.

Today the man who has the courage to build himself a house constructs a meeting place for the people who will descend upon him on foot, by car, or by telephone. Employees of the gas, the electric, and the water- works will arrive; agents from life and fire insurance companies; building inspectors, collectors of radio tax; mortgage creditors and rent assessors who tax you for living in your own home.

perché ogni copia di libro può appartenere a molte vite e i libri dovrebbero stare incustoditi nei posti pubblici e spostarsi insieme ai passanti che se li portano dietro per un poco...

You're right to say "hold on to" instead of "keep." To keep is presumptuous. To hold means you realize that today it's yours and tomorrow who knows.

Ao invés de opor aos milhões dos capitalistas os poucos centavos reunidos penosamente pelos operários, é preciso opor aos fuzis e aos canhões que defendem a propriedade os melhores meios que o povo encontrar para vencer pela força.

We did not understand each other's differing notions of property.

When you give the credit or the blame to another for your success or lack of it—you are powerless to make any change.

One blade couldn't win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.

Our partner's sexuality does not belong to us. It isn't just for and about us, and we should not assume that it rightfully falls within our jurisdiction.

An awfully beautiful story, but it isn't mine.

be stoned and the owner given the death penalty. If a ransom is agreed upon

Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me.

Consider relationships of dependence,' my sister suggests. 'You don't own your body- that's not what we are, our bodies aren't independent. The health of our bodies always depends on choices other people are making.' She falters for a moment here, and is at a loss for words, which is rare for her. 'I don't even know how to talk about this,' she says. 'The point is there's an illusion of independence.

Henry George, who proposed that profits made from a natural resource, like land or coal or oil, should be distributed equally among everyone. No individual, he argued, should build a fortune by laying claim to a collective resource. George believed that everyone was entitled to profit from their labor, but that profits made from the ownership of property should be heavily taxed. The woman who invented the Landlord's Game, Elizabeth Magie, was an advocate of that tax.

Your class, in this approach, is determined by how much you have of three kinds of capital—economic capital, cultural capital, and social capital. Or, what you own, what you know, and who you know.

If you were truly mine, I would never share you." "Possessive, are you?" "Extremely.