Ownership Quotes

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. ...

Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and ...

And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men

They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

Everything seemed so clear to him now that he could not stop wondering how it was that everybody did...

subject that got people aroused . . . was Who Owns America? . . . They had a chart going . . . filli...

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the ...

I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer...

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, ...

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to ...

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a hum...

You are rich. You own. We are poor. We lack. You have. We do not have. Everything is beautiful here,...

I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.”Vokep shook his head g...

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal j...

"Nothing is ours, except time."

Thought is yours only. Nobody can alter or influence the use you mean to make of it.

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you o...

A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

It is preoccupation with possession more than anything else that prevents men from living freely a...

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you too...

Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a b...

...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--i...

If niggers were supposed to have their freedom, they wouldn't be in chains. If the red man was suppo...

It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or anothe...

Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage ou...

In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a cert...

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.