Quotes About Ownership

The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go?

Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn't.

Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn't.

Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.

Nuestros libros, en cuanto dejan nuestras manos, tienen vida propia.

If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires—they are merely daydreams.

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

No one owes me the fulfillment of my wishes.

take responsibility for finding it. It is only by grace of the second type

Where there is no power, there can be no responsibility, and where there is no responsibility, there can be no reasonable self-reproach. Regret, yes; guilt, no.

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy.

But, to tell you my private mind, Signor Giovanni, he should receive little credit for such instances of success - they being probably the work of chance - but should be held strictly accountable for his failures, which may justly be considered his own work.

It may have been true that from a strictly legal standpoint there was nothing wrong with how Winslow and the other Plymouth officials acquired large amounts of Pokanoket land. And yet, from a practical and moral standpoint, the process removed the Indians from their territory as effectively—and as cheaply—as driving them off at gunpoint

You are fighting for what you can never obtain, and we are defending what we never mean to part with.

if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened...but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead.

But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.

What can fingerprints mean when they're not necessarily yours?

of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened... but people like to keep what's theirs, even after their dead. It didnt take long for ethics to be crushed by greed. Unwinding became big business, and people let it happen

We want what you no longer want.

I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.

All I'm saying is that, unless you're immortal, nothing can really belong to you. The best you can hope for is to hold something for a while, but in the end you've got to give it back.

Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened . . . but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead. It didn't take long for ethics to be crushed by greed.

I'd never want a piece of someone else's brain," Kele had said. "I mean, you don't know where it's been.

And so, I have no one but myself to blame when the scythedom befouls the things I have worked for.