Quotes About Ownership

I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no greater burden than to be the owner of this nasty country where it rains every day.

As for the insane doctrine that being born in a country gives some right to the possession of the soil of that country, it hardly requires notice.

They [the peasants] were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

The man who is not permitted to own is owned.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

Because free peoples believe in the future, free peoples will own the future.

You may have married her, but she is mine. Do you think I shall let you take her? She may be ten times your wife, but, by God, you shall never have her.

The bear, I decided, had got to become mine. The dogs and my other animals would soon get used to it and together we could go waltzing over the hillsides.

Blaming someone else will only put the solution further out of reach.

Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle; bad is when they steal mine.

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

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

That which is built upon the land goes with the land.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.