A collection of 584 inspiring quotes about ownership from various authors and sources.
The diversity of forms of ownership has given rise to a diversity of forms of theft.
Flying my own small plane is my escape. I learnt to fly in 2006 and share ownership of a Socata TB10.
Countries were told they had no incentives because of social ownership. The solution was privatization and profit, profit, profit. Privatization would replace inefficient state ownership, and the profit system plus the huge defense cutbacks would let them take existing resources and an increase in consumption. Worries about distribution and competition or even concerns about democratic processes being undermined by excessive concentration of wealth could be addressed later.
So you have the ownership of the Phoenix Suns, the Los Suns, and whoever - \"We don\'t want to offend the portion of our fan base. We want to appear to be politically correct. We want to appear to be all-inclusive\" and so forth. Well, fine and dandy, but what happens when that contributes to the overall deterioration of the culture of this society?
Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple computers. In principle information technology could be used to provide direct information to the work force on the ground so that they could democratically decide what the company would do, eliminating the role of management. It could be used for that. People aren\'t developing technology for that purpose.
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It\'s in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the kind that comes through private ownership and control, which is an *extremely* rigid system of domination - people have to... people can survive, by renting themselves to it, and basically in no other way... I do disagree with them *very* sharply, and I think that they are not..understanding the *fundamental* doctrine, that you should be free from domination and control, including the control of the manager and the owner.
Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well.
One of the key proposals coming from the Rockefeller camp was to push a 'democratic' employee stock ownership plan, because 'it makes the worker a capitalist in his viewpoint and this renders him a conservative and immune from radical ideals,' and produces greater productivity, which is the aim.
Money secures the right of ownership to alienate. (Anatoly Yurkin)
Avatar ownerlessness. (Anatoly Yurkin)
The unconditional guarantee of the right to private property is more important than the paper games of lawyers and politicians around the wording of a particular national Constitution. (Anatoly Yurkin)
The Pandora\'s Point was set on the day of the probate in a protracted family dispute over property. (Anatoly Yurkin)
Tao can be used by anybody, but it does not beling to anyone. It is just like air; everyone can breathe the air, but no one can claim ownership of the air.
Our ownership in Christ is documented in the Word of God, and our names are registered in the Lamb's Book of Life.
I support a total ban on handgun ownership for anyone under eighteen. Uzis should be absolutely banned from entering this country. Automatic weapons of any kind should not be for sale in America. For that matter, toy Uzis should not be available for kids, either. There would be a minimum seven-day waiting period between applying for a gun permit and obtaining a gun.
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage.
I've been around responsible gun ownership my whole life.
Worker ownership within a state capitalist, semi-market system is better than private ownership but it has inherent problems. Markets have well-known inherent inefficiencies. They're very destructive.
Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it would be nice to see more protest inside the Communist Party but it's not democracy. It's not going to happen. [Shareholder actions] are a good step, but they're mostly symbolic.
I renounce all satanic assignments that are directed toward me and my ministry, and I cancel every curse that Satan and his workers have put on me. ... I reject all other blood sacrifices whereby Satan may claim ownership of me.
Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged.
Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.
There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.
Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to be small-caliber handguns. Moreover, gun ownership has increased over the past 20 years Ђ' the same period in which both the violent crime rate and the killing of police officers have been in decline.
Progress is not automatic, it depends on what we do every day. So any statement of ownership of our own bodies, however that occurs in our individual lives or our community or our collective lives, is crucial.
Claim ownership of your dreams
I sold some shares, but on a net basis, significantly increased my ownership.
This was Mahatma Gandhi's idea, moving from ownership to relationshipЂ'seeing that land does not belong to us. We belong to the land. We are not the owners of the land. We are the friends of the land, like friends of the earth. The fundamental shift is in this consciousness that land does not belong to us, we belong to the land.
On occassion, slaves in Spanish New Orleans owned slaves, whose labor they could appropriate toward purchasing their own freedom, or whose ownership they could trade as a partial payment on their own freedom.