Quotes About Ownership

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

Whatever we understand and enjoy in human products instantly becomes ours, wherever they might have their origin... Let me feel with unalloyed gladness that all the great glories of man are mine.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

The spirit of commerce... renders every man willing to live on his own property...& prevents the growth of luxury.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs.

Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

You have a place to live in this world which no other man can occupy; hence no competitors.

The Bible teaches that God owns the world. He distributes to every man according to His own good pleasure, conformably to general laws.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he, who can call today his own.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?"

A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

A man cannot own a woman, cousin. He can only... He can only love her.

When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.