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

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
Gary Wright

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.
Bill Nelson

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
Mort Sahl

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose Bierce

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
George Santayana

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
John Wooden

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
James Cash Penney

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
Thomas Clarkson

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Isocrates

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Herodotus

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Friedrich Schiller

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
Ben Elton

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
Peter Stuyvesant

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
Mahatma Gandhi

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
Stefan Kanfer

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
Sitting Bull

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
Peter Stuyvesant

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon