Quotes About Ownership

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

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?

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does.

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?

The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.