Quotes About Ownership

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

The fault lies with us, and only us. It's not fate, not genetics, not bad luck, and it's definitely not Mom and Dad. Ultimately it's us and our choices. But, but' – now her eyes shone and she almost vibrated with excitement – 'the most powerful, spectacular thing is that the solution rests with us as well. We're the only ones who can change our lives, turn them around. So all those years waiting for someone else to do it are wasted.

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable,' said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, 'Emerson.' 'Lake and Palmer?' 'Ralph and Waldo.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

According to Gerber, to run a successful business, business owners need to balance three personalities: the technician the manager the entrepreneur.

the fact that maybe men think if they just name everything, everything'll be okay, the fact that it's like dogs marking their territory

Ma conception de la grève du futur ne consiste pas à faire la grève et se laisser mourir de faim, mais de faire la grève et s'approprier la production

When will the people see the real cause of all their woe—the private ownership of the means of life? When will the masses learn that property is theirs and theirs only who has produced it—earned it?

Now, what do we mean when we say revolutionary Socialist? We mean that the land shall belong to the landless, the tools to the toiler, and the products to the producers

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use.

the essence of the ownership of the means of production in a society which divides labour differs from that found where the division of labour does not take place; and that it differs essentially from the ownership of consumption goods in any economic order.

Mises showed that the end of private property would mean the end to economic rationality.

A new social ideal long ago supplanted the naive fanaticism for equality of the distributors, and now not distribution but common ownership is the slogan of Socialism. To abolish private property in the means of production, to make the means of production the property of the community, that is the whole aim of Socialism.

IT is the aim of Socialism to transfer the means of production from private ownership to the ownership of organized society, to the State.

The socialistic State owns all material factors of production and thus directs it.

Limitation of the rights of owners as well as formal transference is a means of socialization. If the State takes the power of disposal from the owner piecemeal, by extending its influence over production; if its power to determine what direction production shall take and what kind of production there shall be, is increased, then the owner is left at last with nothing except the empty name of ownership, and property has passed into the hands of the State.

Liberalism champions private property in the means of production because it expects a higher standard of living from such an economic organization, not because it wishes to help the owners.

The peculiarity of land as a means of production is, partly, what gives the ownership of real property its special position in the Law.

If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization

it's quite difficult to know who owns a story. Is it the writer, who crafted it? The characters, who carry the plot forward? Or you, the reader, who breathes life into them? Or perhaps none of the three can exist without the other. Perhaps without this magical combination, a story would be nothing more than words on a page.

People do belong to each other. Once you make a sacrifice for someone, you own part of his or her soul.