Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. M...arriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They had their fortunes to make, everything to gain and nothing to lose. They were schooled in and anxious for debates; forcible i...n argument; reckless and brilliant. For them it was but a short and natural step from swaying juries in courtroom battles over the ownership of land to swaying constituents in contests for office. For the lawyer, oratory was the escalator that could lift a political candidate to higher ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own... a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy. A year later there is a new political ring or a change in the paper's ownership, consequence: more confusion, more contradiction, a sudden inrush of new ideas, their tempering, their distillation, the reaction against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our life on earth is, and ought to be, material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality pr...operly; they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The good mother knows that frustration teaches tolerance and that instant gratification is not always best; the too good mother me...ets all of her son's needs instantly. The good enough mother knows that a son needs to have ownership of his actions. She stands on the sidelines and cheers him on but lets him run past her in the race. The too good mother keeps her child from becoming independent; she mothers in a way that benefits herself, not her son.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such joint ownership creates a place where mothers can "father" and fathers can "mother." It does not encourage mothers and father...s to compete with one another for "first- place parent." Such competition is not especially good for marriage and furthermore drives kids nuts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against t...hat which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The use of arms is ownership Of the appropriate gun. It is ownership that brings... Victory that is not hinted at in "Das Kapital." I think there is never but one true war So let us as you desire perfect our trade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »