Property is organized robbery.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

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

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.

There cannot be a stronger natural right than that of a man’s making the best profit he can of the natural produce of his lands.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

I’m a control freak. If you’re going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

Every summer’s mine.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

I don’t think I’ve ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn’t be ours anymore.

Managing your own property can be a full-time job.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Most shareholders have little if any control over the companies in which they own stock, even if they own a million shares.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

The Marines have landed, and we now own a piece of Afghanistan.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It’s like stealing a two-year-old.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.