Paul Virilio Quotes

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

There will be no place that the sun will shine that will not be ours.

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

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.

The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.

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

The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.

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

See, I have taken England with both my hands

This battle will decide who will rule Asia.

They who possess the prince possess the laws.

I inherited it, I bought it, I conquered it. It’s mine.

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

Dominion must naturally follow Property.

I want all the titles.

WWE is my domain, my yard.

He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.

I don't own an inch of land, but all I see is mine.

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

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!

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

"See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. 'It's mine."

Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

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