Acquisitive Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated… — Albert Einstein
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and… — Michael Parenti
Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience… — Susan Sontag
I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn makes their souls as metallic… — Selwyn Hughes
Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of… — Theodore Dreiser
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. — Walter Lippmann
But death's acquisitive instincts will win. — Harold Brodkey
Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its… — Mahatma Gandhi
Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves to sleep again by joining… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that… — Russell Kirk
Tabloid discussion of bad children always blames baby-boomer liberals, careerist mothers and fashion-crazed Nathan Barley types who think it's all enormously funny. But the centre-leftish… — Peter York
The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Weâ€™re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. Weâ€™d rather shop than live, acquire… — Frank Schaeffer
Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the… — Lawren Harris
I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you engage with the world, it tastes… — Vivienne Westwood
But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It… — Alan Watts
Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations,… — Pete Townshend
How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other… — Andrew O'Hagan
Democrats (I think to myself) are liberals who believe the people are basically good, but that they need government help to organize their lives. They… — Andy Rooney

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