Ownership Quotes - Page 17

• In the larger sense, however, the personal ownership of firearms is only secondarily a matter of defense against the criminal. Note the following from Thomas Jefferson: The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government. That is why our masters in Washington are so anxious to disarm us. They are not afraid of criminals. They are afraid of a populace which cannot be subdued by tyrants.

  Jeff Cooper

  Gun, Government, Tyrants

  "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1994.

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• If you're feminist, it means that you've noticed that male ownership of the direction of female lives has been the order of the day for a few thousand years, and it isn't natural.

  Grace Paley

  Mean, Order, Years

  Grace Paley (2014). “Just As I Thought”, p.163, Macmillan

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• Even on my films, I always collaborate with the actors. That's a given. I think you need that. You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do, to get the most out of everyone's potential.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Thinking, Needs, Stories

  "Director Cary Fukunaga Talks TRUE DETECTIVE, Making an 8-Hour Film, Future Seasons, BEASTS OF NO NATION, Modernizing Horror with IT, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Countries were told they had no incentives because of social ownership. The solution was privatization and profit, profit, profit. Privatization would replace inefficient state ownership, and the profit system plus the huge defense cutbacks would let them take existing resources and an increase in consumption. Worries about distribution and competition or even concerns about democratic processes being undermined by excessive concentration of wealth could be addressed later.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Worry, Competition

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• The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it neither our free enterprise system nor our republican form of government could long endure.... The next Republican Administration will...not only protect the cherished human right of property ownership, but will also work to help millions of Americans - particularly those from disadvantaged groups - to share in the ownership of the wealth of their nation.

  Jeffrey H Reiman

  Wisdom, Government, Long

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• I don't like the idea of telling private business owners. I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant. But at the same time I do believe in private ownership. I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets public funding.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Thinking, Ideas

  "'All-Star' Panel on Dennis Blair's Resignation and Rand Paul's Civil Rights Gaffe". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. May 20, 2010.

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• I feel like Ive got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

  Tim Walz

  Gun, Feet, Safety

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• The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Keys, Kind, Switching

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• If the people of America do not rise up, take ownership of our country, we're going to lose it forever.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, America, People

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• Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

  Tom Peters

  Skills, Creating, Alliances

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• US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's rights. International human rights law now looks at not whether or not the tribes have formal ownership or legal title in a Western legal conception might have it, but rather they look at the tribe's historical connection to that land.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Past, Historical, Recognition

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The one word I hear when people have affairs is that they feel alive. They don't talk about the fact they're having sex. They feel like they are engaged with their life. They describe an experience that beats back the deadness inside, which isn't the fault of the marriage or the partner. It's often the deadness that they have allowed to creep in for years on their own. But by definition, it's a transgressive act. And transgression is a breaking of the rules. And it gives you a sense of ownership and freedom. And ownership and freedom gives you a feeling of aliveness. It's a chain.

  Esther Perel

  People, Giving, Feelings

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kissing, Mouths, Ifs

  Karen Marie Moning (2002). “The Dark Highlander”, p.81, Dell

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• The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Mean, Men

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• The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Freedom, Essence, Slavery

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• Could there be a better answer to the stupidity of Karl Marx than millions of workers individually sharing in the ownership of the means of production.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Mean, Stupidity

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• I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Children, Growing Up

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Meanwhile, what about the workers in those state monopolies that are being put up for sale? I am reminded of a technique for employee ownership that has worked well for many U.S. companies. It goes by various names, but the best known is "Employee Stock Ownership Program," or ESOP.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Names, Technique

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• Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Wisdom, Justice

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Ownership in the world I have none, but I have an infinite interest in it; for if not my own it is my God's; and so it is mine in a higher than a legal sense. Yes, this is the beauty, this is the whole sublimity, this is the tender delight of life - that it is of God's governing.

  William Mountford

  Delight, World, Infinite

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.282

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• Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

  Pope Pius XI

  Two, Class, Warfare

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• The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I'm terrible at writing overtly political poems.

  Adrian Matejka

  Writing, Kids, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

  Kin Hubbard

  Government, Long, Looks

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• Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Philosophy, Homeless, Certain

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• I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

  Bill Rancic

  Business, Successful, Thinking

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