lack of ownership Quotes

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

A problem is that if all of us are collectively responsible for a big world goal, then no single agency or politician is held accountable if the goal is not met. Collective responsibility for world goals works about as well as collective farms in agriculture, and for the same reason.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it

Capitalism is supposedly free enterprise. Supposedly about the free individual. But capitalism itself is so massive that the guy on the street gets caught in paying rent, taxes, and he doesn't own himself at all.

The goat which has many owners will be left to die in the sun.

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.