Acquisitiveness

Acquisitiveness is, in the Christian monastic tradition, associated with pride, the root of all human error and failure: pride, which is most clearly evident in the refusal to acknowledge my lack of control over my environment, my illusion that I can shape the world according to my will.

Ethics, Economics and Global Justice 2009

Our nation worships the unholy trinity of the Dollar, Acquisitiveness, and Opulence with the fanaticism of the Inquisitors.

Blind Obedience to the Canons of Capitalism:Of Sick Societies, American Dalits, and a Nation of Lady Macbeths 2006

Acquisitiveness - the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods - is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries.

Bertrand Russell - Nobel Lecture 1950

Messrs. Bumpus and Crane examine him and find a good-sized organ of Acquisitiveness.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Various

A man may be entirely idiotic in the sense which gives the desire for property and the impulse to acquire it (Acquisitiveness), while he exhibits excellent sense in other directions.

How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor

Acquisitiveness, which two organs constitute audience and actors.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

_Acquisitiveness_ -- Desire for property; industry; economy in acquiring property; realization of value.

How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor

We will suppose the case of a man of the Bilious Temperament, dark complexion, hair and eyes; Moderate Caution; small Vitativeness, Hope and Self-esteem; large Destructiveness and Acquisitiveness.

How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor

Other things being equal, the man with large Acquisitiveness will exhibit more sense in acquiring property, and the man with large Caution and Secretiveness more sense in economizing, than those having these organs small.

How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony William Windsor

Messrs. Bumpus and Crane examine him and find a good-sized organ of Acquisitiveness.

Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900