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Quotes About Ownership

Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can.
~ Stephen Kinzer
Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
~ Desmond Tutu
There's an old-school gatekeeper mentality to some of the RPG community: 'It's unfair that somebody out there can make money on something that I worked so hard to make for free for my friends.'
~ Matthew Mercer
Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
~ J. D. Salinger
It is simply unfair for the Internal Revenue Service to lay claim to the bulk of a small business or farm when a death occurs. Federal tax policy should instead be geared toward helping the next generation keep these family-owned operations alive.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
Unfortunately, nothing is ever that simple in copyright law, and when it comes to music copyright, it's especially convoluted.
~ Sarah Jeong
Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
~ Warren Spector
Unfortunately, sometimes the fans forget who puts the money and passion into the club. It's funny, but when you win, it's the coach and the players who are responsible, but when you lose, it's the owner's fault; but that's football.
~ Andrea Della Valle
Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.
~ Louis O. Kelso
Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.
~ Robert S. Strauss
It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.
~ Louis O. Kelso
Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.
~ Ronald Reagan
The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.
~ Louis O. Kelso
My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I go to de One who says silver n gold is Mine
~ Kingsley ofosu-Ampong
I am responsible for my life, my happiness, and my joy. I am responsible for my faults, which will destroy.
~ Debasish Mridha
It's difficult to accept full responsibility and apportion blame at the same time – you have to choose one.
~ Mensah Oteh
Accepting complete responsibility is the unsung character trait of those who find uncommon success, and failure to accept responsibility is a common trait of those who end up with a mediocre life.
~ Mensah Oteh
One who cannot swim must not blame the water.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
For a path to be your own path you must be walking on that path!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.
~ Steve Maraboli
.if you cant let thing go, it owns you..
~ Boris Kovalík
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.
~ Sara Teasdale