I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.
Yachts are the closest a commoner can get to sovereignty.
The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.
Exclusive property is a theft in nature.
50 years later a similar phrase was made famous be anarchist Pierre Joseph Proudhon.
I keep what's mine, and I do not share.
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone.
She's my kitten, and no one else's.
I bought a Lamborghini, SV Aventador, one of 600. Modified. There's other 'Lambos' out there, but that one I have is unique.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.
A plane is a guilty pleasure. I have one. It's a great luxury. I appreciate it. I couldn't do what I do. It's not something you can write down as anything other than, "Wow, I can't believe I have this and I'm absolutely spoiled and entitled." On the other hand, I have one and I use it.
I have never given this ring, my soul, to anyone. Azrael has never had any part of this. This is the only part of myself that is truly mine, and now it is yours.” —Jack Force
You don’t share me. You own me.
A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.
The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.
The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source.
My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles in the Encyclopaedia, is that it must be public.
You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown.