Quotes About Possession

No man actually owns a fortune. It owns him.

It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

Men are ruled by toys.

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it.

Every man's disease is his personal property.

The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.

It is better to guide one soul than to possess all that is on earth, for as long as that guided soul is under the shadow of the Tree of Divine Unity, he and the one who hath guided him will both be recipients of Gods tender mercy, whereas possession of earthly things will cease at the time of death. The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. This hath been Gods method in the past, and shall continue to be in the future!

Los libros tienen su orgullo, cuando se prestan no regresan nunca.

Falar de cultura foi sempre contra a cultura. O denominador "cultura" já contém, virtualmente, a tomada de posse, o enquadramento, a classificação que a cultura assume no reino da administração. Só a "administração" industrializada, radical e consequente, é plenamente adequada a esse conceito de cultura.