Acquire Quote by Anonymous

For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its…

— Polybius

The paid wealth which hundreds in the community acquire in trade, or by the incessant expansions of our population and arts, enchants the eyes…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on…

— A. J. Muste

“But, alas, this wealth, instead of blessing the race, has been the means of enslaving it. The few have come in possession of all,…

— Eugene V. Debs

Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition…

— Horace Mann

“The nascent capitalism of modernity is a sacrificial economy that worships money as fetish and sacrifices the “subjective corporeality of the Indian and African…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

“Slaves in the past were captured by force; today’s slaves surrender themselves. The masters are the same old folk (who are now more civilized)…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

— Publilius Syrus

Many people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire

— Anonymous

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of…

— Rumi

In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive…

— John Dewey

The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the people, when applied to laudable ends; whereupon…

— Anonymous