Quotes About Ownership

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Her body lies in the bed like an inanimate object, an emptied bellow or shopping bag. Nothing has changed with her departure from the camp. Her body is still in their power, even more so now. Only now does S. understand that a woman's body never really belongs to the woman. It belongs to others—to the man, the children, the family. And in wartime to soldiers.

Adore once more for what's for of what's yours.

The Dalai Lama has warned: 'Too many people have the Dharma only on their lips. Instead of using the Dharma to destroy their own negative thoughts, they regard the Dharma as a possession and themselves as the owner.

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.

Don't give out cos u have alot, give out like u don't worth what u own

didn't belong to her. She said her car was missing a mirror and the trains were knackered, so she'd

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

Sexual intercourse vests no property rights.

We should be better craftsmen of our own lives.

For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

A man is a beautiful thing, a very beautiful thing. But some men forget this. And sometimes they try to keep other men captive. They buy and sell people, as if human beings are no more than cattle. But only a fool believes he can really own another man, and only a fool will try. Mr. Finley may own my body, but I have a heart and I have a mind, and he can never own these. Inside of me, I'm too powerful to be owned by anyone. Inside, I am like the sun.

Aki másnak vermet ás maga esik bele Aki másnak vermet ás maga esik bele

The part I always loved about golf was that you could go out there by yourself and be totally responsible for what happened or didn't happen.

Appropriating" seems to have the same stress put on it in relating the individual to the world through the ownership of property as "belief has in relating the individual to the world through the acquisition and power of knowledge.

The key to project success is being proactive. Instead of waiting for others to tell you what to do,

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

It's the start of something loud and soft, classic jazz and wordless love song, free and entangled: forgiving yourself for being human, for the things you want to grab hold of, own and giving yourself permission when you need to let go.

Pero siempre ol vida que "tener" no significa "mantener", ni "poseer" "conservar".

if only I had someone who belonged only to me, and didn't always have to go into other people's homes and share with them; I want someone for my very own.

This is what we Mexicans do:we take what exists and we make it our own.