Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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.

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

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

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

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

No man can lose what he never had.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

Property is proper to man.

If I change car, I change car. I don't get very fond of things.

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

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

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

No one owns anything. Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realize that nothing really belongs to them. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no point wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine.

Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery. Soon it will be gone. The flower that has blossomed in the morning, by the evening will be gone. Don't get attached; otherwise in the evening there will be misery. Then there will be tears, then you will miss the flower. Enjoy while it is. But remember, it has come out of nothing, and it will go back to nothing. And the same is true about everything, even about people.

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

To none is life given in freehold; to all on lease.

There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.