Quotes of Rapacious - somelinesforyou

“ War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ He who is greedy is always in want. ”

- Horace

“ Corrupt, stupid, grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish, and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. ”

- Walter Lippmann

“ Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. ”

- Orrin Hatch

“ Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. ”

- Edmund Burke
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