God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?
Samuel Hopkins

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
Benjamin Franklin

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles Kingsley

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl Marx

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
Thales

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.
Joanna Lumley

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.
Elizabeth Taylor

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
Robert Mapplethorpe

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
Ella Maillart

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Whitney Houston

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
Charles Schwab

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
H. P. Lovecraft

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
Jerzy Kosinski

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.
Arsenio Hall

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.
William Graham Sumner