Possessors Quotes

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

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

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

The Prophet has a greater claim on the faithful than they have on themselves, and his wives are (as) their mothers; and the possessors of relationship have the better claim in the ordinance of Allah to inheritance, one with respect to another, than (other) believers, and (than) those who have fled (their homes), except that you do some good to your friends; this is written in the Book. - Quran

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. - Charles Babbage

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives. - John Bright

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. - James F. Cooper

North Korea is not gaining anything by being possessors of nuclear weapons. - Colin Powell

Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, / And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. - Bible