Jean Baudrillard

To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

French Sociologist

Howard Jacobson

Legality' is a mad phrase to use when it comes to the founding of nations. Australia was founded on illegality. For the Americans to go in and dispossess the American Indians was illegal.

British Novelist

Ariel Sharon

I was born in the Land of Israel, the son of pioneers - people who tilled the land and sought no fights - who did not come to Israel to dispossess its residents.

Israeli Leader

C. Northcote Parkinson

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

British Historian

Often used in legal situations where someone is forced to give up property or land.

Legal Context

Implies a power difference where the stronger party takes from the weaker.

Power Imbalance

Highlights that the loss is against the person's will and often unfair.

Involuntary Loss

 that don't have anything in their libraries, and also of organizing lots and lots of workshops, in reading and writing, for all the people who are eager to tell our many stories. Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign,

Chimamanda Ngozi...

 Dispossess the person from that and they become nothing.' Maybe this was where I could find that glimmer I saw in Lily's eyes. The homelands.