Possession Quotes

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.

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.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

In a world of inhumanity, war and terrorism, American citizenship is a very precious possession.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.