Rapacious Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property and women of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious. — Alexander Hamilton
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary… — David Korten
Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes… — Cornel West
The media propagates a message that corporations want, and thereâ€™s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat,… — Chris Hedges
Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema… — Russell Kirk
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked… — Nicholas von Hoffman
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take the profit, the… — Norman Bethune
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean. — Calvin Trillin
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively
Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power,… — Lysander Spooner
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of… — Charles Dickens
Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose… — Kiran Desai
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and… — A. S. Byatt
Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the… — Iain Banks
Warren Buffett has shown you can be very, very successful without being rapacious, while still being honest, without engaging in constant legal battles. — Guy Spier
I bought myself a rubber brain, familiarized myself with its many parts, listened intently, and read more. In fact, I read obsessively, as my husband… — Siri Hustvedt

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