“The ownership of industry by the state - that is not socialism.” StatesIndustrySocialismOwnership Author:Erich Fromm
“The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.” FeelsFirstsSituationWillingCleanOwnershipDiscomfortAmendsTaking Ownership Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.” PersonsStrongSpeechPressesFree SpeechOwnership Author:Nat Hentoff
“When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.” PeopleLittlesJobsOpportunityCommunityPropertyStakesOwnershipFdaJob OpportunitiesProperty Ownership Author:Jack Kemp
“Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.” JobsOpportunityNationsGoalPovertyEconomySizeProsperityPocketsOwnershipSetting GoalsEquality Of Opportunity Author:Jack Kemp
“One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back.” GivingSaidUsePropertyPhilosopherOwnershipTheftMy Future Author:George Carlin
“How do you think we have the home mortgage deduction? We have it because way back when it was determined that the American dream equaled home ownership. And everybody knows that the vast majority of the American people will never be able to write a check for a house. You have to finance it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWritingHomeDreamAbleHouseMajorityDeterminedChecksFinanceAmerican DreamOwnershipMortgageBack WhenDeductionsHome OwnershipWay Back WhenHome Mortgage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The structures of the WTO need to be reformed to increase participation. There must be a greater sense of shared ownership of the substance of the trade negotiation agenda. Decisions about issues to be negotiated, and in which sequence they should be taken, should rest with all WTO members, not only the most powerful.” NeedsShouldDecisionPowerfulIssuesTakenGreaterMembersIncreaseTradeStructureSubstanceAgendasMost PowerfulOwnershipParticipationNegotiationSequence Author:Mary Robinson
“There's something about TV shows and the format that becomes a bit more personal. People watch two, three in a row before they get out of bed on their laptop or when they get home from going out and before they go to sleep. People make shows part of their daily routine, and that makes them take ownership of it. If you're so arrogant as to call yourself an artist, you can't ask for anything more than that.” PeopleIfsTwoShowsHomeArtistThreeAsksBitsSleepWatchesTvsBedRoutineArrogantOwnershipGoing OutTv ShowsGoing To SleepFormatLaptopsDaily Routines Author:Jay Baruchel
“I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoImportantCountryUseLawCommunityResultsViolenceStreetsCitizensGunTraditionIllegalHuntingOwnershipAbidingUsageSportsmanshipHandgunsLaw Abiding CitizenGun Ownership Author:Barack Obama
“You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership.” ThinkingFeelsCultureHavensCampaignsOwnershipTurnover Author:Barack Obama
“The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.” SometimesStatesHandsCertainOrderTermWealthCasesLandRemainsMajorityPlantSocialismFactoriesOwnershipPrecise Author:Joseph Stalin
“The society which we have built can in no way be termed "state socialism."The social organization which we have created can be termed a Soviet, socialist organization which has not yet been quite completed, but is in its root a socialist organization of society. The foundation of this society is public ownership.” WayStatesSocialBuiltRootsOrganizationFoundationSocialismSovietOwnershipSocialistThis SocietySocial Organization Author:Joseph Stalin
“Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.” MeanHas BeensCountryLandPlantOur CountrySovietFactoriesOwnershipSocialistReplacedTransportationMeans Of Transportation Author:Joseph Stalin
“Neither Italian fascism nor German national "socialism" have anything in common with such a [Soviet socialistic] society, primarily because private ownership of factories, plants, lands, banks, means of transportation, etc., remain untouched there, and, therefore, capitalism in Germany and Italy remains in full force.” MeanForceCommonLandCapitalismRemainsPlantSocialismGermanyEtcItalianFascismSovietFactoriesOwnershipTransportationMeans Of Transportation Author:Joseph Stalin
“I want people to retake ownership of their lives. I don't want people with perfect bodies. I want people who are striving to get more fit and feel great. That's what America needs. A lot of American's have lost hope, and I am trying to inspire it back into people.” PeopleWantNeedsFeelsTryingBodyAmericaLostPerfectInspireFitStriveOwnershipLost Hope Author:Diamond Dallas Page
“The term Christian used to be a pejorative. Back in the day, Christians were persecuted; however, over time, it became one of the word's biggest religions. Same thing with the term Mormons in the religious area. Mormons didn't want to be called that. They wanted to be called Latter-day Saints. It's only been in recent decades that they kind of shifted that position and took ownership of it.” WantKindWantedChristianUsedTermReligiousPositionAreasSaintDecadesUsed To BeLatterOwnershipPersecutedBack In The DayLatter DaysLatter Day Saints Author:Simon Tam
“International "experts" from technical assistance agencies or universities can make important contributions, but they certainly don't have all the answers. When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.” ImportantTogetherChanceAnswersGreaterProgramRootsInnovationUniversityInternationalVariousLocalsExpertsAgencyContributionWorking TogetherOwnershipAssistanceStakeholderImportant Contributions Author:Ruth Simmons
“Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.” KnowsShowsAudienceHugeOwnership Author:Larry Wilmore
“No matter to what degree China opens up to the outside world and admits foreign capital, its relative magnitude will be small and it can't affect our system of socialist public ownership of the means of production.” WorldMeanMatterDegreesProductionsChinaRelativeOwnershipSocialistMagnitudeOutside World Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Corporations that are turning over these huge profits can own everything: the media, the universities, the mines, the weapons industry, insurance hospitals, drug companies, non-governmental organisations. They can buy judges, journalists, politicians, publishing houses, television stations, bookshops and even activists. This kind of monopoly, this cross-ownership of businesses, has to stop.” KindHouseCompanyMediaTelevisionMinesJudgingHugeIndustryPoliticianDrugWeaponsCrossesUniversityProfitJournalistCorporationsStationsHospitalsActivistPublishingOwnershipMonopolyOrganisationBookshopsDrug CompaniesPublishing House Author:Arundhati Roy
“The Tea Party is not monolithic. There is a battle between people who care about liberty and the Constitution and the Republican Establishment who is trying to take ownership of it and redirect it for its own purposes.” PeopleTryingCarePurposePartyLibertyRepublicanBattleConstitutionTeaEstablishmentOwnershipWho CaresTea Party Author:Naomi Wolf
“I think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore. All the issues of land ownership, development resources, poverty, alcoholism and violence, all these things.” ThinkingWayLongHas BeensRunningPovertyIssuesViolenceLandDevelopmentResourcesIrelandOwnershipScotlandAlcoholismSectarianismNorthern Ireland Author:Irvine Welsh
“The very idea that there should be a certain class of people who give orders by virtue of their ownership of wealth and another huge class who take on orders and follow them because of their lack of access to wealth and power, that's unacceptable. So, sure it should be abolished.” PeopleGivingShouldIdeasCertainOrderWealthClassVirtueHugeAccessOwnership Author:Noam Chomsky
“As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and services or by promoting worker ownership - not only have immediate practical benefits but provide the necessary preconditions for the growth and development of a renewed culture of sustainable democracy that can serve as the basis for still further transformations at larger scales.” StillsMovingCultureGrowthCommunityDemocracyEconomicDevelopmentBenefitsFlowBasesTransformationWorkersScalesPracticalsInstanceGoodsOwnershipInterventionPromotingCommonwealthGoods And Services Author:Gar Alperovitz
“In America, we need to develop communitywide structures of democratic ownership, we need to work out cooperative development, we need to work out participatory management, we need new ecological strategies developed at the local city, state, regional level.” NeedsStatesAmericaLevelsCitiesDevelopmentManagementStrategyStructureDemocraticWork OutLocalsOwnershipEcologicalCooperatives Author:Gar Alperovitz
“Worker ownership is only one form of democratizing ownership.” FormWorkersOwnership Author:Gar Alperovitz
“For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals of egalitarian society. But you start at the local level, both at the workplace, community and other institutions and you reconstruct the egalitarian democratized structure as well as participatory structure. And as this happens, we learn more how to move toward the vision that is much larger than just the community level.” YearsWellsHas BeensHappensMovingGoalCommunityWealthLevelsVisionKeysArgumentInstitutionsStructureLocalsOwnershipWorkplace Author:Gar Alperovitz
“Swami cannot give peace of mind; you must work for it yourselves. First, stop the questioning and ask, 'who am I?'. This is my body, my mind, my intelligence. But who is this 'My'? Who is it that claims the ownership of that which is declared to be 'mine'? 'My' indicates ownership. That 'My' is the life. As long as the life is in the body, there is this connection between the 'my' and the intellect - 'my' body, 'my' house, 'my' land. But the moment you remove the life from the body, there is no 'my' or sense of possession. Life is God.” GivingMindFirstsLongMomentsBodyLife IsAsksHouseLandMinesConnectionsClaimsPossessionIntellectRemovePeace Of MindQuestioningOwnership Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“People should accept themselves for who they really are and be proud of that and take ownership of that first and learn that self love to really be happy.” PeopleShouldFirstsSelfAcceptingSelf LoveProudOwnershipBe Proud Author:Becky G
“One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children," as Maria Sabina calls the magic mushrooms, or anything else for everyone. I find that certain substances reconnect me to a primal context of purpose that goes beyond identity and ownership. The writing-when I've worked it this way-is the kind of information you take back from dreams. Or it's hypnotic writing rather than getting off on some sort of pleasure trip or intellectual trip.” WayWritingKindChildrenLittlesDreamPurposeCertainPleasureMagicInformationIdentityIntellectualSaintGuidesSubstanceOwnershipRespectfulCautiousPrimalMushroomsBe CautiousHypnoticImbibing Author:Anne Waldman
“I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.” WorldWellsStillsPlayUseProblemRunningThreeGamesGivenFunHoursIssuesToo MuchFootballDrugHollywoodPaidYeahCoachesHaving FunBest ThingsSundayBad ThingsGood LifeAmbitiousOwnershipQuarterbackPlaying FootballDrug UseRunning Back Author:Terry Crews
“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.” PastTermHistoricalWesternHuman RightsRecognitionOwnershipIndigenousIndigenous People Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San Francisco Peaks where the ski resort, one of the holiest, sacred mountains in Navajo cosmology. I mean, it's considered a horrible desecration. I mean, you know, put it into another cultural context and you wouldn't be able to think of that being, with any other racial group. But for Indians because, you know, we think they really don't care about land or they have primitive ideas or they don't have ownership, we completely disrespect that.” ThinkingMeanCareMountainHorriblePrimitiveOwnershipDisrespectCosmology Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“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.” WritingKindFeelingsKidsRememberPoliticalPresidentTerribleElectionBigotryOwnership Author:Adrian Matejka
“There are many ways to create economic suicide on a national level. The major way through history has been through indebting the economy. Debt always expands to reach a point where it cannot be paid by a large swathe of the economy. This is the point where austerity is imposed and ownership of wealth polarizes between the One Percent and the 99 Percent.” WealthEconomyEconomicSuicideOwnership Author:Michael Hudson
“A lot of people do get stuck on the idea that they can't pour energy into something unless they own it. Given the current situation, property ownership is getting more and more unlikely. And it is not the essential part. If you're able to roll with adaption, and build the skill base of being a really useful person, there are so many more opportunities. And that's a skill for the future, because that's what the world is going to be like.” PeopleWorldOpportunityEnergySituationPropertyStuckOwnership Author:David Holmgren
“These are two different exercises. One of them is, "You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen," and the other one is, you're curious and you're learning, and I have a way where you can learn this so you'll know it as well. And when you know it, and know why you know it, then you don't have to reference me ever again because you take ownership of the knowledge, and you can then share it with someone else.” DifferentShareExerciseCuriousOwnershipShut Up Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Men realize that they have work to do, to pull up women and take ownership on where we are as a society, and that they have work to do to help their female relatives and friends - to give a voice to women, not in a patriarchal way, but in a supportive way. It is all of our jobs to make sure that women's rights are human rights, and that they do have a place at the table, and we all push toward equality.” MenGivingHelpingRealizingFemaleHuman RightsOwnershipSupportive Author:Julie Smolyansky
“One might ask the question: Is the mortgage interest deduction doing a better job, a worse job, if it's supposed to promote homeownership and savings? Because home ownership is the biggest form of savings in this country. Different people will look at that data and draw different conclusions, but that's just an example of the kind of thing you can pull out of USAFacts and develop a point of view about.” PeopleKindDifferentCountryHomeInterestPoint Of ViewConclusionOwnershipMortgage Author:Steve Ballmer
“By rebuilding transportation so that you're not owning this thing that just sits there all the time, you get to rebuild cities in the process. If we do this right as a country, we have a chance to re-create our cities with the people, rather than cars, at the center. Our cities today have been built for the car. They've been built for car ownership. Imagine walking around in the city where you don't see any parking lots and you don't need that many roads.” PeopleCountryTodayChanceImagineCarWalkingOwnershipTransportationParking Lot Author:John Zimmer
“I understand and respect people who say they want to boycott the Trump brand. I also respect your right to buy his products. But what you miss is that no one in public office, Hilary or Trump should use that platform to profit themselves. In Trump's case there are serious concerns about the conflict of interest in his brand and business ownership. Do we really want a president who had products he can push while working for the American people?” PeoplePresidentInterestMissingSeriousConflictOfficeConcernOwnershipBoycottRespect People Author:Michelle Singletary
“I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.” ArtistJourneyOwnership Author:Estelle
“I think for us, we don't feel like the future of music is in the act of being a record company. We feel like the future of the music business is in empowering artists to have better and better tools to communicate with their fans. We want to be people who are saying to artists, "Look, you don't need that company over there to release your album. You can do it this way." Almost more of a band partnership than a label-artist relationship. Not about ownership of content, but about empowerment.” PeopleThinkingArtistMusic IsEmpowermentCommunicateEmpoweringPartnershipOwnershipYou Can Do ItMusic Business Author:Zac Hanson
“I think we'll start defining wealth and success differently and develop new approaches to consumption. Things that have always signified wealth and security - home ownership, new cars, luxury goods - have become a burden for many people and will be replaced by more experiential consumption like travel and recreation, self-improvement, and so on. By divesting themselves of certain big-ticket possessions that have been keeping them tied down, people will gain a new freedom to live more meaningful lives. Changes in consumption and lifestyle are key to Great Resets.” PeopleThinkingHomeWealthSecurityCarPossessionBurdenMeaningfulLifestyleLife ChangingOwnershipReplacedMeaningful LifeNew Car Author:Richard Florida
“In the 80s, Ford's successful introduction of the Taurus was, in large part, due to productivity gains resulting from the setting aside of outmoded work rules. Yet, inexplicably, union leaders ignored such efforts to foster employee involvement, much as unions largely stayed on the sidelines with regard to the equally promising practices of employee stock ownership and gain-sharing.” EffortLeaderSuccessfulProductivityEmployeeOwnershipIgnoredInvolvementIntroduction Author:James O'Toole
“The failure of unions to support efforts to increase employee involvement and ownership coincided with their unwillingness to speak out on the broader issues of business effectiveness and performance. When foreign competitors threatened the survival of American manufacturers, unions chose to voice traditional employee demands for higher wages, better benefits, and more security. What they failed to provide were effective responses to the challenge of globalization.” SpeakChallengesEffortSupportSecuritySurvivalResponseEmployeeOwnershipGlobalizationInvolvement Author:James O'Toole
“I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for the subjugation and legal ownership of other human beings based upon the construction of race as a biological phenomenon.” WealthyPhenomenonConstructionJustificationOwnership Author:Tripp York
“From beginning to end, Scripture repeatedly emphasizes God's ownership of everything: "To the Lord your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it" .When I grasp that I'm a steward, not an owner, it totally changes my perspective.” EarthHeavenLordPerspectiveScriptureOwnership Author:Randy Alcorn
“If you know what you want and you hire people that can do it, there's no reason it should be arduous and torturous. I wanted everyone to enjoy themselves on my set and want to be there, to take ownership of it and pitch ideas to me and know that this is their flick.” PeopleReasonEnjoyOwnership Author:Jay Baruchel