Quotes About Ownership

The universe belongs to you, and you belong to your conscience.

You cannot have an agency that defends your property, which also has the right to violate your property rights at will. That's like hiring a bodyguard that you pay to beat you up randomly.

Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.

Those things you can buy have no value but have a price. Those things you cannot buy have value and are priceless.

nO thing is yOur's except yOur "bOdy" -&- nO one is yOurs except yOur "sOul

Never blame anyone for your life. You are responsible for you.

Things do not belong to us but we belong to things.

We always fail to recognize when we are at fault, but we are always eager to blame others.

If you do not manage things, be prepared to face the consequences.

And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

If we own the story then we can write the ending.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.