Famous quotes containing the words vicarious and/or acquisition:
“Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)