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Rose Wilder Lane
“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

Dianna Hardy
“Do you remember what we just did? Please tell me you remember what we just did."

She briefly toyed with the idea of lying and saying no, just to see the look on his face, but she'd had enough of having her brain played with – it wouldn't be too sporting to do the same to him. "Yes, I remember, and don't you think for one minute that just because you had me on my back screaming I was 'yours'," she waved four fingers in quotation marks in front of his face, "that it gives you any kind of ownership over me, because it doesn't."

He looked annoyed, then relieved, then he laughed. "Yeah, whatever, baby.”
Dianna Hardy, The Sands Of Time

Tiffany Madison
“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

Ursula K. Le Guin
“Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“Ownership: 'A commitment of the head, heart, and hands to fix the problem and never again affix the blame.”
John G. Miller, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Work and in Life

Raymond Chandler
“I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.”
Raymond Chandler

John  Bartlett
“I have gathered a posy of other men's flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.”
John Bartlett

Ursula K. Le Guin
“... “Dangerous!” Vea laughed radiantly. “What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dangerous, Shevek?”
“Why, because you know that in the eyes of men you are a thing, a thing owned, bought, sold. And so you think only of tricking the owners, of getting revenge –”...”
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Bryant McGill
“There can never be any real freedom on earth as long as people try to exert ownership over the natural resources of the world.”
Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

Bryant McGill
“Ownership is yet another of the endless forms of arrogance engaged in by the lower self.”
Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

Philippa Gregory
“Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.”
Philippa Gregory, The Red Queen

Bruce M. Hood
“If we were content with ownership, then we would stop acquiring more stuff. But the combination of the thrill of the chase, the need for status and the crippling sense at the prospect of loss reveal that ownership Is one the strongest human urges and does not easily respond to reason. Of course, most of think we are the exception, but then, that is why we are possessed.”
Bruce M. Hood, Possessed: Why We Want More Than We Need

“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, Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times

Ava Reid
“No one owns the right to tell a story.”
Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

Sylvia Day
“I’m twenty-four years old, Gideon,” I said dryly. “I stopped developing years ago. What you see is what you get.”
“Yes, but I’m the only one who’s supposed to be seeing, since I’m the only one who’s allowed to be getting.”
Sylvia Day, Bared to You

“winners and achievers take
ownership of their own lives and careers”
André van Eck

Penelope Lively
“Objects. Possessions. The material world that we carry around with us, that solders us to events, that outlasts them. The objects with which we manifest love. The possessions with which we possess.”
Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“Love is one of these things humans experience, twist to fit their cage of mortality, and then claim to have invented. I'm not blaming you, far from it. Love was made to be coveted, and humans are nothing if not convinced of their right to take.”
Claudia Lux, Sign Here

Christopher Manske
“We, the people, should take more responsibility for doing things the hard, proper way instead of the easy, inaccurate way.”
Christopher Manske, Outsmart the Money Magicians: Maximize Your Net Worth by Seeing Through the Most Powerful Illusions Performed by Wall Street and the IRS

“This Universe and Earth is completely belongs to you and have been created for you, please take care to those.”
Rashid Jorvee

“Starlight,” he drawled, his head tilting curiously, “there are two kinds of belonging. Possession … and alliance. One of single ownership, and one of mutual desire.”
Chloe C. Peñaranda, The Stars Are Dying

Clemantine Wamariya
“We were never to think. This orange is mine. I am giving you what is mine. We were to think, This orange is ours. We're sharing what's ours.”
Clemantine Wamariya, The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

“This is what I have been saying, especially about those people who were once partisan operatives and have become Never-Trumpers, and most especially those who speak now all the time about what a danger he is. I'm talking to you: Nicole Wallace, Michael Steele, Steven Schmidt, Kurt Bardella, Rick Wilson, can you own your part in where we are currently? Can you tell us how you helped get us here? Can you make clear how and what you sold people that led right to this snake oil salesman?”
Shellen Lubin

Ann Petry
“She still walks as though she owned the world, and come to think of it, she does. That's why she walks like that.”
Ann Petry, The Narrows

“The land does not belong to us, we belong to it.”
Nitzan Hamburg

Ardin Patterson
“I may have stolen my father’s identity…but it’s true, my father does own this building.”
Ardin Patterson, Feral

Tomi Kauppinen
“You said it earlier, life is so easy nowadays, everything comes ready, there is no need to struggle. So, it is good to struggle by creating,” Kathy said with a wet voice.”
Tomi Kauppinen, Human

“Every problem has two sides. It’s easy to blame both sides on others, but the hardest part is taking ownership of your side and fixing it.”
Siddharth Katragadda, The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The size of the mistake will always be determined by the size of the commitment to correct it.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Stewert James
“In "The Unwanted," the server experiences are real (servers gave me their stories); not just the hilarity of the patrons, but the stories behind the people. Well, except for the ending... love a mystery and a surprise.”
Stewert James, The Unwanted