My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important.
Sidney Poitier

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James A. Baldwin

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Emile M. Cioran

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
Andre Breton

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
Desiderius Erasmus

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
Epicurus

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Chanakya

One's religion is one's own possession and he has a right to it.
Paul Harris

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
John Lennon

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin Disraeli

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
Michael Ramsey

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Dick Gregory

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
Epicurus

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Robert Collier

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
Edwin Louis Cole

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
Mother Jones