Ownership Quotes

The land was ours before we were the land’s She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people ...

Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

Jerusalem is ours as much as yours; indeed, it is even more sacred to us than to you.... Do not imagine that we can to you or compromise on this. The land belongs to us from the beginning, while you have only just arrived and have taken it over only because of the weakness of the Moslems living there at the time. God will not allow a single stone to be rebuilt as long as the war lasts. As for the cross, its ownership is a high card in our hands and it cannot be surrendered except in exchange for something of priceless benefit to all Islam.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff

The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

If the people want a government of their own they must do the work of making it their own.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

Own nothing, control everything.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

Victory finds a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

A weapon is an enemy even to its owner.

Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.

They were tricky, those demons. Could they be trusted? Of course they could be trusted. She'd created them. She owned them. They wouldn't lead her astray.

Every exploration is an appropriation.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

Why not? After all, it belongs to him.

Nothing is ever really yours until you share it.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.