Quotes About Possession

a thing is not property unless it is owned; and without ownership, there is little incentive to improve it.

What is put into the hands of B cannot be put into the hands of A.

Obsession' is explained as 'the act of besieging' or 'the first attack of Satan, antecedent to possession'—a pair of definitions together more eloquent than the whole of Fatal Attraction.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Psychologists talk of the 'endowment effect' – that we are more concerned about losing things than gaining them. Once we own something, we are averse to losing it, even if we are offered something of greater value in exchange.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Sebastopol by Leo Tolstoy

The man who ten years earlier and one year later was considered a bandit and outlaw is sent a two-day sail from France, to an island given into his possession, with his guards and several million, which are paid to him for some reason.

Understand that this isn't love. I have been in love but this is not the same. This is not my feeling, but some external force taking possession of me. I left because I decided it could not be, you understand, like a happiness that doesn't exist on earth; but I have struggled with myself and I see that without it there is no life.

My field was God's earth. Wherever I ploughed, there was my field. Land was free. It was a thing no man called his own. Labor was the only thing men called their own.

At first, in the bustle of building and settling down, Pahom was pleased with it all, but when he got used to it he began to think that even here he had not enough land.

You must understand," said he, "it's not love. I've been in love, but it's not that. It's not my feeling, but a sort of force outside me has taken possession of me. I went away, you see, because I made up my mind that it could never be, you understand, as a happiness that does not come on earth; but I've struggled with myself, I see there's no living without it. And it must be settled.

And people strive not for the good in life, but for goods they can call their own

He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity.

There are men who call land theirs, yet have never set eyes on that land and have never trodden it. There are men who call other men theirs, but yet have never set eyes on the other men, and their sole relation to those other men consists of doing them evil.

Cada día el mundo se vuelve más egoísta y feo. Hay odio entre las personas, entre las clases, entre los pueblos; porque todo el mundo está buscando encontrar bienes materiales, la posesión de la cual no es nada

Property is the pivot of civilization.

How quickly pettiness returns, and that most ignoble form of real estate, the possessive occupation and tyranny over two square inches of human flesh, the wife's cunt.

Plus on partage, plus on possède. Voilà le miracle.

It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure.

But you will only be mine under your conditions while I'll belong to you unconditionally

Te roba algo de tu alegría que yo haya pertenecido antes a otro y que otro me posea después de ti? ¿Será menor tu placer porque otro haya sido feliz como tú?