Quotes About Dispossession

#1. 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

G. Willow Wilson

#2. Though they lived with the indignities of dispossession and military
occupation, Huda sang with an unassailable freedom that comes only
to those with unwavering faith.

Susan Abulhawa

#3. Genealogy itself is something of a privilege, coming far more easily to those of us for whom enslavement, conquest, and dispossession of our land has not been our lot.

Tim Wise

#4. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#5. Moreover, the way the Jackson Democrats treated the Indians was not an aberration. Rather, it was only the beginning of a long subsequent Democratic Party history of dispossession, cruelty, bigotry, and theft.

Dinesh D'Souza

#6. Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. Love is verily the heart of all religions.

Ramana Maharshi

#8. I would much rather people kick and scream and tear their hair out and accuse me of all kinds of blasphemy, than just have no opinion whatsoever.

DJ Shadow

#9. In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession.

T. S. Eliot

#10. Without a clear focus on the scandal of wage labor and original accumulation, on capitalism's awful history of possession and dispossession, both art and politics mistake images for the enemy.

Anonymous

#11. In democratic South Africa, dispossession is nine-tenths of the law.

Ilana Mercer

#12. Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

James Gustave Speth

#13. There isn't anything weird about my music.

Frank Zappa

#14. All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

Christina Stead

#15. I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

Arto Lindsay

#16. Irish people will tell you that, because of their sad history of dispossession, owning a home is not just a way to avoid paying rent but a mark of freedom. In their rush to freedom, the Irish built their own prisons. And their leaders helped them to do it.

Michael Lewis