Possessor Quotes

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. - Michel De Montaigne

What! can you then make the deaf to hear or guide the blind and him who is in clear error? / But if We should take you away, still We shall inflict retribution on them; / Rather We will certainly show you that which We have promised them; for surely We are the possessors of full power over them. - Quran

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. - William Pitt The Younger

'Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years' lease. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. - Isaac D'Israeli

Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter; / Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. - Bible

Therefore call upon Allah, being sincere to Him in obedience, though the unbelievers are averse: / Possessor of the highest rank, Lord of power: He makes the inspiration to light by His command upon whom He pleases of His servants, that he may warn (men) of the day of meeting. - Quran

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. - William Graham Sumner

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge