#ownership

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There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.


Bryant McGill


#ownership #possession #freedom

One never owns a book. It sits on your shelf in a fine edition like a piece of furniture, and you are its admiring ward until it flies off from you in a time of financial hardship. If it is a tattered paperback, she is your casual mistress you use a few times. If you have read it a hundred times then it is your wife, and a source of infinite mystery.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #libraries #ownership #funny

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


José Saramago


#liking #ownership #appreciation

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own.


Ashly Lorenzana


#knowledge #materialism #mind #money #objects

I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.” Vokep shook his head grimly. “It’s the kids,” he said. “Having babies. Makes ’em propertarians. They won’t let go.” He sighed. “Touch and go, brother, that’s the rule. Don’t ever let yourself be owned.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#ownership #relationship #men

You own me,” he said, water sputtering against his lips as his head bobbed at the surface. “You have lock and key, deed to the house, the welcome mat, all that shit. It’s all yours, baby.” “I’ll have to take good care of my property, then.” “And I’ll have to behave on and off the premises. I may be a little rowdy, but...I’ll use my manners.” I sent him a small splash. “No swearing, invading personal space, or forgetting your pleases and thank-yous.” A glimmer twinkled in his irises, and for a moment, it looked as if he was the one about to drown. “Damn straight,” he pulled me against him abruptly, nose to nose. “Now please get over here and fucking kiss me.


Rachael Wade


#ownership #soul-mates #love

[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine." (A Qualified Farewell)


Raymond Chandler


#ownership #solitude #writing #writing-craft

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.


John Ashcroft


#ownership #reasonable #regarding #regulations #weapons

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.


Neil Abercrombie


#came #concepts #exchanged #land #ownership

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.


Ambrose Bierce


#control #earth #eminently #foundation #land