#owners

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is. ↗

— Rose Wilder Lane

#ethics #freedom #individual-rights #ownership #philosophy

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#criminal #eternal-life #freedom #freedom-of-speech-dissent #freedom-of-thought

In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#ownership #power #property #water #art

One never owns a book. It sits on your shelf in a fine edition like a piece of furniture, and you are its admiring ward until it flies off from you in a time of financial hardship. If it is a tattered paperback, she is your casual mistress you use a few times. If you have read it a hundred times then it is your wife, and a source of infinite mystery. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #libraries #ownership #funny

I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.” Vokep shook his head grimly. “It’s the kids,” he said. “Having babies. Makes ’em propertarians. They won’t let go.” He sighed. “Touch and go, brother, that’s the rule. Don’t ever let yourself be owned. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#ownership #relationship #men

Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#came #concepts #exchanged #land #ownership

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#business #business owner #business owners #celebration #day

Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#business owners #capital #cards #credit #credit cards

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners. ↗

— Don Bluth

#also #clean #design #game #graphics

The farmers in Kansas are sorely in need of a credit system meeting their special requirements, that they may more readily obtain money on short or long time for their farming operations, or that they may become owners of farms. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#credit #farmers #farming #farms #kansas