Quotes About Possession

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

My soul is possessed by this devil my new name is Rain Man.

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.

Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

As much land as a man tills, plants, improves, cultivated, and can use the product of, so much is his property. He by his labour does, as it were, enclose it from the common.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

The world asks, "What does a man own?"; Christ asks, "How does he use it?"

I'm carrying the weight of all the useless junk and modern man accumulates.

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might.

Our conviction is that human life and limb are a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take that away, in any cause, however just...

Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.

The last man that makes a joke owns it.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

A man is in bondage to whatever he cannot part with that is less than himself.

Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.

Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.

Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

I cannot allow another man to take what I already consider mine.