Rapacity Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call…
— Abraham Lincoln
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the…
— Georges Cuvier
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The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
— Joseph Conrad
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Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all…
— Gilbert Sorrentino
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized…
— Ezra Stiles
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For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.
— Lewis Thomas
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To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not simply moral imperatives. They are…
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to…
— Erasmus Darwin
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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic…
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of…
— Edmund Burke
Who Wrote These Rapacity Quotes
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