Possessions Quotes

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

All my possessions for a moment of time.

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.