Ownership Quotes

To make a claim of ownership implies a claim against others. That is, others must refrain from interfering with your use of that thing. As such the very act of the body occupying its standing room is to make a claim against others because only one body can occupy the space at a time.

Daniel Alexander Brackins

Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

Anonymous

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Persian Proverb

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

Marie Elizabeth Kane

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.

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

Bertrand Russell

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

Spanish Proverb

Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.

Charles Dudley Warner

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntington

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

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

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.

Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.

Anonymous

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Persian Proverb

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

Marie Elizabeth Kane

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.

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

Bertrand Russell

Ownership is to fear (tener es temer)

Spanish Proverb

Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.

Charles Dudley Warner

The landscape should belong to the people who see it all the time.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry loose is not nailed down.

Collis P. Huntington

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

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

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

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

You can own an elephant or a bank or power thereof but if there's no personal breast bliss all you own is a lot of dead atoms and ideas.

The best compliment someone can give me is stealing my idea and making it their own.

Nobody ever washes a rental car.

Scott J. Simmerman Ph.D.

I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

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

Everything God has given to us is “for rent.” We can only manage what we have but the right of ownership belongs to God.

In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below Yami’s Under City, out along the banks of the river, out to the nearest coast and thereupon out into the sea; the roots crept down further along the continental shelf, downward into the abysses, downward into the ocean floor, burrowing under the corals and under trenches, and then back up again to sprout in the darkened forest on a foreign continent: all the trees of the world now had conjoined roots, for they were now of one conjoined consciousness!

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

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

I learned that you can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving.

We buy things. We wear them or put them on our walls, or sit on them, but anyone who wants to can take them away from us. Or break them....Long after he's dead, someone else will own those stupid little boxes, and then someone after him, just as someone owned them before he did. But no one ever thinks of that: objects survive us and go on living. It's stupid to believe we own them. And it's sinful for them to be so important.

God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.

They sell crap to buy you.

Toba Beta

You may have bought my body, you may even have the papers to prove it, but don't fool yourself into thinking for a moment that my heart and mind were included in the purchase.

For most of human history people owned other people. Then, only a hundred and fifty years ago, our ancestors figured out that was a bad idea. One day we’ll figure out, or our descendants will figure out, that people owning land they don’t live on or work is a bad idea too.

...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.

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

Ursula K Le Guin

It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

Anthony Liccione

What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.

Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.

I want to give a name to my would-be killer. What should I call him? Something that will ease his presence in my mind, make him look foolish, like he is of no threat and never was, which is in fact the truth. I don't want his real name, which is meaningless to me, but instead something I control, something I own, some way to own that piano-idiot who attacked me.

That's not in my yard.

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

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

Funny thing how it is. If a man owns a little property, that property is him, it's part of him, and it's like him. If he owns property only so he can walk on it and handle it and be sad when it isn't doing well, and feel fine when the rain falls on it, that property is him, and some way he's bigger because he owns it. Even if he isn't successful he's big with his property. That is so.''But let a man get property he doesn't see, or can't take time to get his fingers in, or can't be there to walk on it - why, then the property is the man. He can't do what he wants, he can't think what he wants. The property is the man, stronger than he is. And he is small, not big. Only his possessions are big - and he's the servant of his property. That is so, too.

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