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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. -- George Orwell
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. -- George Bancroft
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. -- Rod Serling
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. -- Heinrich Heine
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward. -- Wilma Mankiller
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire. -- Anwar Sadat
If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. -- Dale Carnegie
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said. -- Laurence Tribe
According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body. -- Annie Dillard
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. -- Gouverneur Morris
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation. -- Alice Walker
The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. -- James Madison
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Iraq is not the only nation in the world to possess weapons of mass destruction, but it is the only nation with a leader who has used them against his own people. -- Tom Daschle
It was used for decades to describe talented computer enthusiasts, people whose skill at using computers to solve technical problems and puzzles was - and is - respected and admired by others possessing similar technical skills. -- Kevin Mitnick
Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished. -- George Grey
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. -- Ralph Ellison
The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love. -- Francois Pinault
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own. -- Banksy
I don't believe in monogamy, possessing people, the rightness or inevitability of jealousy. -- Kate Millett
Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases. -- John Wilbanks
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues. -- William Ellery Channing
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters. -- Neil Gaiman
Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less. -- Benito Mussolini
It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. -- Arthur Conan Doyle

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