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Quotes About Ownership

Noli me tangere; for Caesar's I am.
~ Unknown
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
~ Unknown
In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.
~ Unknown
The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.
~ Norman Mailer
The human physical senses must be emancipated from the sense of possession, and then the humanity of the senses and the human enjoyment of the senses will be achieved for the first time.
~ Norman O. Brown
and they starts biddin' on me. And when they cried off and this Mr. Crosby come up to get me, I just pulled out my papers and helt 'em up high and when he sees 'em he say, "Let me see them." But I says, "You just look at it up here." He squints up and say, "This gal am free and has papers." And tells me he a legislature man and takes me and lets me stay with his slaves. He is a good man.
~ Unknown
La pauvreté extrême en Chine est évaluée à moins de 1%. Plus de Chinois sont propriétaires de leur logement que tout autre peuple.
~ Unknown
And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine.
~ Novalis
El amor no puede ser enjaulado. El amor, para retomar una espléndida imagen que Rainer Maria Rilke utiliza en una de sus cartas, necesita moverse libremente, necesita una mano abierta que le permita, sin obstáculos, detenerse o escapar. Apretar los dedos para inmovilizarlo significa convertir la mano en un ataúd. Porque poseer quiere decir matar.
~ Unknown
Neymi? efendim? Hiçbir i?in sonunu getirmemi?im. Siz ba?lamay? bile göze almad?n?z.
~ Unknown
Benim d???mda kimseye de öfkesini belli etmezdi. 'Bütün kötülü?ün bana' diye tak?l?rd?m. 'Anlam?yorsun Esat a?abey,' derdi. 'Onlar? öfkeme lay?k bulmuyorum. Öfkem bana ait bir ?ey. Yak?n hissetmedi?im birine nas?l gösteririm onu. Onlara da size davrand???m gibi davranm?? olurum. As?l o zaman kötülük etmi? olurum size.
~ Unknown
We collected all the bones we could find, and yesterday, Natividad wrapped them in a shawl that she had knitted years ago. It was the most beautiful thing she owned. "A thing like that should serve the living," Bankole said when she offered it. "You are living," Natividad said. "I like you. I wish I could have met your sister.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Sometimes they need to prove to themselves that they still own themselves, that they can still care for themselves, that they still have things—customs—that are their own." "Sounds like an expression of the Human conflict," Aaor said. "It is," I agreed. "They're proving their independence at a time when they're no longer independent...
~ Octavia E. Butler
too. A woman should have something of her own." Doro
~ Octavia E. Butler
The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.
~ Okakura Kakuzo
like a peasant tending to his property,
~ Unknown
Philosophical concepts—those were what kept him up at night; they belonged to him.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
the point here was appropriation via antithesis.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
God gave animals a lower rank, in the service of man.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Together they owned the large, flamboyant Doctor Beltado. They might ignore him, they might even despise him, but no one else was going to get him.
~ Olivia Manning
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
~ Oprah Winfrey
We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
~ Oren Peli
What we object to is the division of society into two classes, of which one class owns the capital, and the other performs the labor.
~ Unknown