ownership Quotes

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave.

Someone who can be, and therefore is, owned by another, and who understands reason but doesn't fully possess it, is a natural slave.

He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

"Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings."

"The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property."

"Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."