Quotes About Ownership

The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

That, in its essence, is Fascism — ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.

Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

And the American people should be made aware of the trend toward the monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power in fewer and fewer hands.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.

It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.

When I played, the owners had the power. The prisoners are running the prison now, not the warden. The warden is strong and he has say so but, the balance of power is definitely with the players.

at least half of the time they spend on schoolwork must be on stuff that can't end up in the Friday Folder? That the reason they're doing their schoolwork isn't just for a grade or for it to be pinned up in the hallway? It should be because their work is something they create on their own, or with others, that has real value in the real world.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Never in our history was we able to blame someone else for our troubles.

Us middle class...never have to worry about having old furniture to point out to our friends. We buy it on payments and before it's paid for it's plenty antique.

Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.

stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the

We've been watching your kind, noting it all down, putting it in our order pads while you snort in your trough. It may be fragmented, it may not be prettified, it may not be in the Grand Tradition, but let me tell you--it's ours and we're ready to publish!

Records of Nevis, they received a deed to property

only when we assume responsibility for our happiness that we will have a reasonable chance of gaining it.

remember that all we have is "on loan" from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission—indeed, without even advance notice.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Part You can give each person a part to play in both the plan and the outcome. People need a tangible way to contribute and participate.

the tenets of socialism: Own nothing individually. And then no one can take anything away from you.

The East India Company limped on in its amputated form for another fifteen years when its charter expired, finally quietly shutting down in 1874, 'with less fanfare,' noted one commentator, 'than a regional railway bankruptcy'. Its brand name is now owned by two brothers from Kerala who use it to sell 'condiments and fine foods' from a showroom in London's West End.