Quotes About Ownership

Man can live and satisfy his wants only by ceaseless labor; by the ceaseless application of his faculties to natural resources. This process is the origin of property. But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.

Be pleased, gentlemen, to dispose of what belongs to yourselves as you think proper, but leave us the disposal of the fruit of our own toil, to use it or exchange it as we see best. Declaim on self-sacrifice as much as you choose, it is all very fine and very beautiful, but be at least consistent.

For what are our faculties, but the extension of our personality? and what is property, but an extension of our faculties?

In building towers into the clouds, man is proving to himself that he is above nature. And that's exactly how you feel at the top of one of these rockets of concrete and aluminum, glass, and steel: everything I can see belongs to me, no more traffic jams, gutters, sidewalks, I am man above the world. It is not the thrill of power, but of pride.

Maybe you couldn't ever owe somebody your life, not really. You couldn't let anyone else decide what you did with it. You had to live it yourself, as truly as you could.

And in any case, he felt the strangest sense that this place was his. The sun had been waiting and keeping it warm for him.

Dogs have a master. Cats have servants

Sabes por qué prácticamente todas las relaciones terminan mal? Yo te lo diré: porque en seguida creemos que el otro es posesión nuestra.

pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.

We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.

God does not need our money. He owns everything, including "our" money. What He wants [us] to discover is where our central focus of worship lies. Is that focus on God or our money?

When the Christian or the church becomes popular with the unbelieving world, something is seriously wrong. Because Christ runs counter to evil and because we are Christ-owned, we must also stand against evil.

It may shock some parents to learn that we don't own our children. God has given them to us in trust . . . however, God may transfer our children to His home at any time.

The faithful Christian steward acknowledges that God owns all he has, and it is his responsibility to manage and dispose of his possessions in a way that is acceptable to the Lord.

Jesus demands to be Master and Lord of every part of your life. Is He Lord of your mind, of what you think, read, and believe? Of what you dream about, meditate on, and entertain yourself with? Do your eyes belong to Christ? Can [you] ask God's blessing on it? Can [you] do this to the glory of God?

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

Never invest in anything that eats or needs repainting.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon and cultivate as far as necessary for their subsistence; and so long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil."

Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.

Whatever their particular ownership structure, all of the companies guarded their equity zealously to make sure it remained in the hands of people committed to the same goals.