Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
La possession de ce qu'on aime est une joie plus grande encore que l'amour. Possessing what one loves is an even greater joy than love itself.
I got a cool car but I live fairly regular.
I cap my shoe collection at 40.
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.
You get all excited to give her the ring, and it's real emotional, and you give it to her, and she cries. And a second later, you're like, 'Damn, I could have had a car.'
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
Actually no person owns anything. All belongs to God, but while man is on earth he has the God-given right of possession.
I love trophies. I collect them in my room. I don't know, it's beautiful. Makes my phone look good.
How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
I never really had the money to be a sneakerhead.
Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.
The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.
You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.
You still owe me a yellow Porsche.
If all of your self worth and esteem is invested in how much you consume, how many likes you get, or other quantifiable measures, the desire to simply possess things trumps our ability or capability to make moral connections with people around us.
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it
I bought a white Panamera - and then sold it because I had no use for it.
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.
