Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

Property is proper to man.

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

What's yours is mine and what's mine is my own.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

There is a desire of property in the sanest and best men, which Nature seems to have implanted as conservative of her works, and which is necessary to encourage and keep alive the arts.