Quotes About Ownership

May I keep this?" It was not a question. He was already turning away, placing her miniature painting inside his leather book and tying the straps, so that the bird could never fly away again, even if it had lived.

The ego wants to own every­thing; this denies the invinci­bility of surrender, the hand­maid­en of love.

Love is universal and freely given, yet the ego insists that it be owned, that it obey the ego's stern dictates of when, how and where. In this, the ego will forever fail, for it is fighting the wrong battle. Love can never be limited or exist in separation or isolation.

With the changing ownership of media giants, several have been taken over by corporations based in the defense or entertainment industry, reinforcing the tendency to treat news as marketable entertainment. Yet another reason for the continuing erosion of press freedom arises from the common sense that the press shares with those in power.

The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.

The sun is pure communism everywhere but in cities, where it's private property.

LE GUSTA ESTE JARDIN QUE ES SUYO? ¡EVITE QUE SUS HIJOS LO DESTRUYAN!

That's silly, the people in prison are thieves and murderers.' 'So are the ones in the castle. How else do you get to own a castle?

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 is yours?

They will always allow it. It's only men who need ownership. The gods allow more freedom.

What about all those bodies?" "Those are the dumbasses who thought they could take what's mine.

My favorite summary of the concept of defining your own responsibility for the problems of others was given in a joke, current several years ago. After being surrounded by 10,000 hostile Indians, the Lone Ranger turned to Tonto and remarked, "I guess this is it, Kimo Sabe. It looks like we have had it," whereupon Tonto, surveying the impending disaster, turned and replied, "What do you mean we, white man?

Over the course of time, their successive readings will question and enrich it. Thus the work will no longer belong to the author; he will be dispossessed of it.

A partir de ahora, la vida te pertenece; nada te resultará imposible, si lo deseas verdaderamente.

Your future depends on your choices, on your will. It belongs to you.

Tienes la vida ante ti; tú eres su único dueño. Se digno de todo lo que yo he amado.

enough land to support their family, an amount that they called a hide.

Scandinavians started seizing this wealth because they realized it was theirs for the taking.

its estates became 'book-land', free of royal demands forever.

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

On n'aime que ce qu'on ne possède pas tout entier.

Attachment to an object always brings death to the possessor.

If you cannot create, then buy a company that can. In particular, the large corporations buy small, personnally owned companies that have made breakthroughs in particular areas. They are buying creativity, though the immediate rush this produces doesn't last long. Once integrated into an administrative atmosphere, the creativity is sucked out of them. (IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth)

They got the Library of Alexandria. They're not getting mine. Bumper sticker (with quote flanked by silhouettes of pistol and rifle)