Quotes About Ownership

The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.

The Micklethwaite family who owned and ran Cuckoo Farm were huddled in a group, sleepy and bewildered in thick coats thrown on over their pajamas. Three kids, aged between seven and twelve, were clinging to their parents. An old woman, whom Sid took to be the grandmother, was starting to argue with an agent, her croaky voice rising. She was claiming a lot of rights, as well as being insulting about Nazis and corrupt government officials.

In the transmissible mental disease of god ownership, the victim acquires the megalomaniacal delusion that a being supposedly representing all of his most desirable characteristics actually rules

Nevertheless, they were forbidden to buy land from non-Mennonites, except by special permission of the war ministry, since military obligations were based on land ownership.

For anyone who would not accept military obligations, no expansion of land ownership would be permitted. For Mennonite families with several sons, there was now little prospect of acquiring more land. Acquisition of land was to be allowed only under special and pre-approved arrangements.

Los seres humanos nunca son libres de otras fuerzas que condicionan sus vidas. El problema de la libertad no es la elección entre tener un dueño o no tenerlo; es el problema de quién es ese dueño.

Better to own a little that is dear to you than have all the potato fields of Sa Pobla.

Ephron answered Abraham,

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaacís herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.

But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?

The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.í

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

However, he did not acquire the priestsí portion of the land, for it had been given to them by Pharaoh. They ate the rations that Pharaoh supplied; so they did not sell their land.

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.

But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.

But if the animal was actually stolen from the neighbor, he must make restitution to the owner.

If the animal was torn to pieces, he shall bring it as evidence; he need not make restitution for the torn carcass.

If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not present, he must make full restitution.

If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.

or anything else about which he has sworn falsely. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value, and pay it to the owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.

As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.