Quotes About Ownership

No I wont whip you. Never no more. Sit down thar all of you and listen to what I got to tell you. I hates to do it but I must. You all aint my niggers no more. You is free. Just as free as I am. Here I have raised you all to work for me, and now you are going to leave me. I am an old man, and I cant get along without you. I dont know what I am going to do.

Property is the pivot of civilization.

The fundamental evil of the capitalist system is not the extravagance of the possessing classes, however disgusting that may be in itself, but the fact that in order to guarantee its right to extravagance the bourgeoisie maintains its private ownership of the means of production, thus condemning the economic system to anarchy and decay.

Under communism, there is collective ownership of property de jure. Under Nazism, there is the same collective ownership de facto.

The price is high. God does not want partnership with us, but ownership of us.

An old Scot used to say to us, 'If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

For the thought of throwing the explosive does not come from our philosophic attitude but from the fact that we are holding it.

You mean you are now my slave without illusions, and for that reason you shall feel the weight of my foot without mercy.

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

You were careless enough to leave me the choice. I choose therefore that you shall be my slave, and I shall make a toy out of you.

Aber du willst nur mein sein unter Bedingungen, während ich dir bedingungslos gehöre.

But you will only be mine under your conditions while I'll belong to you unconditionally

Te roba algo de tu alegría que yo haya pertenecido antes a otro y que otro me posea después de ti? ¿Será menor tu placer porque otro haya sido feliz como tú?

Does it diminish your joy that I have belonged to another

I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.

Yeah, we taught him a lesson," the Texan said, his voice fading in and out with the wind. "These goddamn Indians got to learn whose property this is!

You mean to make me beg for it?" "Not at all, my lord. I mean to keep it

We live in a world with "free" content, and this freedom is not an imperfection. We listen to the radio without paying for the songs we hear; we hear friends humming tunes that they have not licensed. We tell jokes that reference movie plots without the permission of the directors. We read our children books, borrowed from a library, without paying the original copyright holder for the performance rights.

God's kingship is present in the church, but it must be insisted that it is not the property of the church. It

she was smart enough to know whose problem that was, and it wasn't hers.

Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their bodies -- those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.