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rapacity
«The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
accursed, brand, concentration, distinguishing, fraud, Here is, malignity, perfidy, prey, rapacity, slew, war crime
«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 possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
brief, cupidity, disappoints, gratifies, held, indifference, material, particular, possession, property, rapacity, The Object of, The Passion
«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 justice is above their rapacity»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Civil rights,
Justice,
Liberty,
Mankind,
Men,
Morality
| Keywords:
appetites, civil liberties, civil liberty, disposition, liberties, qualified, rapacity
«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 the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Effort
| Keywords:
rapacity, The Strange