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.

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

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

We are not the sum of our possessions.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

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?

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

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.

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

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

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

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.

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

Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.

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.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.