Quotes About Ownership

The right to private property meant at the same time the right and duty to be personally concerned about your own well-being, to be personally concerned about your family's income, to be personally concerned about your future. This is hard work.

I hate how white people always try to take credit for something after they discover it. Like it wasn't happening before they found out about it -- which most times is always late, and they didn't have nothing to do with it happening. Then, they try to take all the credit, try to cut everybody black out.

Here's the thing: this planet's not a place that kids will inherit at some point, far off in the distant future. We live here right now, and we share this planet already."

Spending by government currently amounts to about 45 percent of national income. By that test, government owns 45 percent of the means of production that produce the national income. The U.S. is now 45 percent socialist.

I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual's natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they're responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.

Gostava das coisas só para ele, guardando tudo na memória, dono sozinho de seus feitos e fracassos.

Baby, when you're scared, walk round like you own the joint,

Clean up your own mess. Your mama don't live here

On differences between men and boys) Men know what they want. Men make concrete plans. Men own alarm clocks. Men sleep on a mattress that isn't on the floor. Men tip generously. Men buy new shampoo instead of adding water to a nearly empty bottle of shampoo. Men go to the dentist. Men make reservations. Men go in for a kiss without giving you some long preamble about how they're thinking of kissing you. Men wear clothes that have never been worn by anyone else before.

I don't read them; I just hit "accept." iTunes may own my ovaries, for all I know.

Whom did I belong to?

The transmission was done. I was free. The dance was mine.

Right from the beginning, I've always gone to stories when I feel that I can tell them in a special way, that they're mine, that they won't let me go.

Princes in the workhouse, He who did not sleep on a box owns a bed. See, the man of wealth lies thirsting. He who begged dregs has overflowing bowls. See, those who owned robes are in rags, He who did not weave for himself owns fine linen. See, he who did not build a boat for himself owns ships, Their owner looks at them: they are not his.

He who could not find plow-oxen owns cattle.

I did not seize a man's daughter, nor did I seize his field STELA OF THE TREASURER ITI OF IMYOTRU

Poor men have become men of wealth, He who could not afford sandals owns riches.

We believe it wrong ever to take a dollar from a free citizen without a very necessary public purpose, because each such taking diminishes the freedom to spend that dollar as its owner would prefer.

Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

C'è sempre un prezzo da pagare quando si amano gli altri, ma amare se stessi non costa niente. Posso amarmi come mi pare e piace. Sono padrone di me stesso e prendo le mie decisioni.

When Americans sip their iconic Budweiser, they are in fact enjoying a beer produced by a company engendered by a 2004 merger of Brazilian and Belgian breweries that in turn managed to gain control of Anheuser-Busch in 2008, thus forming the world's largest beer company. Its CEO, Carlos Brito, is from Brazil.

Alguien tiene que decir algo sobre las víctimas de los centenares de expropiaciones, sobre los más de dos millones y medio de hectáreas adueñadas a la fuerza que han terminado por convertir al gobierno en el más grande latifundista del país, y que en el fondo no han mejorado la calidad de vida de los más humildes.

Womankind is, in fact, the soup of man, And when a man perceives that others wish To dip their dirty fingers into his dish, His temper flares, and bursts into a flame.

Elles disent, si je m'approprie le monde, que ce soit pour m'en déposséder aussitôt, que ce soit pour créer des rapports nouveaux entre moi et le monde.