A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.
Christopher Lasch

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

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Shmuel Y. Agnon

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

All my possessions for a moment of time.
Elizabeth I

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.
Joan Didion

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?
Melina Mercouri

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
Thomas Mann

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

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin

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.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte

I draw from my family and my friends and I feel like that small-town person. The achievements, the materialistic possessions have really become to mean less. They mean nothing.
Sheryl Crow

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
Satish Kumar

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
George Santayana

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.
Tony Shalhoub

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Plutarch

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.
Thomas Bulfinch

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.
Max Lerner