Robert A. Cook Quotes

The things you used to own, now they own you.

We think we own things, but the reality is, our things own us.

I hate jealousy, I hate possessiveness. I'm nobody's possession.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

She doesn’t want me to own her. (Dante) Well, the Simi doesn’t understand that. Owning’s not so bad. I own akri and he kind of fun. (Simi)

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

She believes that Tobias belongs to her now. She doesn't know the truth, that he belongs to himself.

Anything you think you "must have" usually comes to own you.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

To depend upon the Will of a Man is Slavery.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

I own things I like, but nothing inanimate that I treasure in a deeply consuming way.

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

The more we have the less we own.

Man’s freedom is lacking if somebody else controls what he needs, for need may result in man’s enslavement of man..

Connivance is the relaxation of slavery, not the definition of liberty.