Acquire Quote by Marcel Proust

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any... Those who infringe upon property rights commit…

— Ibn Khaldun

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither…

— Marcus Aurelius

The great renunciation of old age as it prepared for death, wraps itself up in its chrysalis, which may be observed at the end…

— Marcel Proust

The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function…

— John Steinbeck

It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at…

— Arthur Harry Church

As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew…

— David Cobley

“Conception is not some genteel, quiet pastime; it’s a fierce and unforgiving team sport.”

— Barbara Natterson-Horowitz

We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction,…

— Gloria Steinem

A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care…

— Robert Smithson

My music must be an artistic reproduction of human speech in all its finest shades. That is, the sounds of human speech, as the…

— Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work…

— Karl Marx