Pearl S. Buck Quotes

mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

Property is proper to man.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

What I have in my power, that is my own. So long as I assert myself as holder, I am the proprietor of the thing.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

You can never loose a thing If it belongs to you.

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.

The law may do what it will with the owner of property, its just power will still attach to the cent.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man’s nature.

In what then does real power consist? The answer is short and plain—in property.

…property in fact generally confers power, though the possessor of it may not have much more wit than a mole or a mugwash…

If you claim something, you can own it.

I want all the titles.

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

I want to feel that I own things.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

Entry is not equivalent to possession.