Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

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.

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

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.

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, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.

If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don’t Own Anything!

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone.

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

Property is proper to man.

… the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

'Have You in My Wilderness,' the title track, is about the idea of possessing a person, or saying, 'You're mine; you're in my world now.' I was drawn to that as an idea less from my own experience than from listening to music written by men that was kind of male gaze-y.

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

Nine-tenths of human law is about possession.

Possession is eleven points in the law.

I want to feel that I own things.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?

It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me. I have to agree, I have to understand what I'm getting in return.