"Poverty is not something people impose on themselves……" — Pete Townshend

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• This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An… — Albert Einstein
• The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive… — Michael Parenti
• Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as… — Susan Sontag
• I have watched hundreds of Christians in my time become financially blessed then develop an acquisitive streak that in turn… — Selwyn Hughes
• Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color,… — Theodore Dreiser
• Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers… — 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… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Some go to sleep in an organization and never wake up, and those who do wake up put them selves… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
• To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests… — 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… — Peter York
• The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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