War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.

- Alva Myrdal

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

- Cyril Connolly

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

- Pankaj Mishra

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

- Plato

Reality is an acquired taste.

- Robert Fritz