#posses

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#cases #countries #essential #even #made

A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#character #expression #figure #human #interest

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#certain #death #face #give #off

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness. ↗

— John Ruskin

#increased #loads #new #possession #us

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#apostles #beings #claimed #explanation #havoc

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#else #freely #living #more #more than anything

Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#attending #blessings #certain #continue #diligently

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#few #few men #happy #material #material things

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#any #become #being #could #die