Quotes About Ownership

Some slaveowners also practiced slave-breeding by compelling slaves they considered "prime stock" to mate in the hopes of producing children especially suited for labor or sale.

The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them

I wonder who this ship belongs to anyway, said Arthur. Me, said Zaphod. No. Who it really belongs to. Really me, insisted Zaphod. Look, property is theft, right? Therefore theft is property. Therefore this ship is mine, okay?

Is that robot yours?" he said. "No," came a thin metallic voice from the crater, "I'm mine.

Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. Please relax. You will be sent for soon.

But naturally my shoulder, sir,' mooed the animal contentedly, 'nobody else's is mine to offer.

No government owns it," snapped the robot, "it's been stolen.

First we have to call it something which says it's our, not yours, then we set about finding some way of proving it's not what you said it is, but something we say it is.

Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put it in a list. Don't even say the words.

I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value.

To one side, a vintage Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith, polished to a gem-like brilliance, sat on a flatbed trailer, ready to be taken to its new owner. Constance looked from Pendergast to the Rolls and back again. "I really don't need two, you know," he said.

The best way to not think of something is to possess it fully, and then cultivate indifference.

It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

A man doesn't want to feel that a woman cares more for him than he cares for her. He doesn't want to feel owned, body and soul. It's that damned possessive attitude. This man is mine---he belongs to me! He wants to get away --- to get free. He wants to own his woman; he doesn't want her to own him.(Simon Boyle)

Inside, it was clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.

But I," she thought, "am not a whole person. I belong not to myself, but to something outside of me.

A man is responsible for his deeds, and not just the deeds, but for the consequences of those deeds, as well.

People who don't have a certain thing will tend to see it in one of two ways: as something that they absolutely must have or something that no one should ever have

The unintelligent have no rights to own anything let alone their own thoughts which they have no choice but to hand over to anyone. Chaos almost certainly ensues in such a case

My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.

This is My House but this is not Me. What is Mine cannot be Me. Then how can my Body be Me? It is Mine, but it is not Me.

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot." [ Baffled at a Bookcase ( London Review of Books , Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)]

Slave owners invested a growing amount of capital in their slaves: by 1861, almost half the total value of the South's capital assets was in the "value of negroes.

Both figuratively and literally, entitled people expect your signature on the front of the checks, and theirs on the back.