Quotes about Ownership

Before complaining that you are a slave to another, be sure that you are not a slave to self.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

All things are yours and you are Christ's—and Christ is God's. If we live, we live unto God. If we die, we die unto God—whether we live or die, we are God's possession." What more could anyone ask?

We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it.

Property is organized robbery.

People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.

Every dog is entitled to one bite.

He who is shipwrecked twice is foolish to blame the sea.

An example of good debt is the debt on the apartment houses I own. That debt is good only as long as there are tenants to pay my mortgages. If tenants stop paying their rent, my good debt turns into bad debt.

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.