Possess

Famous quotes containing the word possess:

“That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)