Acquisition Quote by David Riesman

Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished!

— Pope Francis

Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in…

— Nicolas Berggruen

The luxury of today is the necessity of tomorrow. Every advance first comes into being as the luxury of a few rich people, only…

— Ludwig von Mises

“The time is ripe for confronting consumption. Not only are ecological problems like climate change more pressing than ever, consumerism has lost some of…

— John C. Ryan

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

“Certain material possessions make my life more enjoyable, many others do not…. All too often, a vast collection of possessions end up possessing their…

— Bernardo Kliksberg

Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with…

— Pascal Bruckner

“Materialism, to some extent, requires that the consumer is not fully present or happy. In the moments of a spending frenzy you feel more…

— Patsy Rodenburg

A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and…

— Stephanie Kaza

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods,"…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have…

— Aristotle