possession quotes

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

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

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

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

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider… the riders contend for its possession.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

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.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.