“If a chieftain or a man leave his house, garden, and field and hires it out, and some one else takes possession of his house, garden, and field and uses it for three years; if the first owner return and claims his house, garden, and field, it shall not be given to him, but he who has taken possession of it and used it shall continue to use it.” IfsMenYearsFirstsUseUsedThreeHouseGivenTakenFieldsReturnGardenClaimsPossessionOwnersThree Years Author:Hammurabi
“Nothing in finance is more fatuous and harmful, in our opinion, than the firmly established attitude of common stock investors regarding questions of corporate management. That attitude is summed up in the phrase: "If you don't like the management, sell your stock." ... The public owners seem to have abdicated all claim to control over the paid superintendents of their property.” IfsSeemsCommonAttitudeOpinionClaimsPaidManagementSellsPropertyFinanceCorporatePhrasesOwnersInvestorsSuperintendents Author:Benjamin Graham
“The basis of self-ownership is the fact that each person has direct control over the scarce resource of his body and therefore has a better claim to it than any third party (and any third party seeking to dispute my self-ownership must presuppose the principle of self-ownership in the first place since he is acting as a self-owner).” FirstsPersonsSelfFactsBodyPartyActingPrinciplesResourcesDirectThirdsBasesClaimsSeekingOwnersOwnershipDisputesScarceThird PartiesScarce ResourcesSelf Ownership Author:Stephan Kinsella
“That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts with a nominal foreign address's owner). They pretend to make their global income in Ireland. They have an office, which could be simply a postal drop box in Ireland, and claim to make all their money there, not in America.” BigsAmericaCompanyTechnologyInformationOfficeAccountsClaimsDollarsBoxesIncomeApplesAddressesOwnersIrelandMicrosoftInformation Technology Author:Michael Hudson
“What must strike any intelligent witch or wizard on studying the so-called history of the Elder Wand is that every man who claims to have owned it has insisted that it is "unbeatable," when the known facts of its passage through many owners' hands demonstrate that has it not only been beaten hundreds of times, but that it also attracts trouble as Grumble the Grubby Goat attracted flies.” MenFactsHandsKnownStudyTroubleClaimsIntelligentStrikesEvery ManOwnersWitchPassagesBeatenEldersWizardsGoatsWandsUnbeatable Author:J. K. Rowling
“Aren’t you afraid they’ll arrest you? (Shahara) I wasn’t a convict, Dagan. I was an illegally purchased slave. My owner has no legal claim on me. And I’m no longer a kid learning my powers. I’m a full-grown man with an ax I want to bury in the forehead of anyone dumb enough to come at me. I defy the bastards to try something now. (Nero)” MenWantTryingEnoughKidsClaimsSlaveDumbOwnersForeheadsConvictsGrown ManNero Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon