Sentence examples for human rapacity from inspiring English sources

This then is another parable of human rapacity: we take what we can, when we can.

Visitors from Lima are astonished to find that provincial Piura has acquired cinemas and boutiques, but the affluence has given new scope to human rapacity.

You might argue that to call such relics evidence of "extinction" is a category mistake – they're evidence of human continuity and change – but I think the point she is interested in, and returns to all over the globe, is human rapacity.

Lord of heaven and earth, look upon our planet, frequently exploited by human greed and rapacity.

With human tools we devise the ethics of urgency to rapidly contain a rapacity that harms the elements and the animals.

There's something comforting to Virgil's conception of humanity, in which relatively little malice and unreasonableness and rapacity seem innate to our kind.

And it appalls me that people who claim for their views the authority of science routinely and arbitrarily insist on a brutally reductionist notion of what a human being is, what the human mind is, that justifies as inevitable every sort of meagerness and rapacity.

But he also gave increasing evidence of rapacity.

Capp's rapacity would ultimately contribute to his undoing.

Enthusiasm, in the presence of lucre, tends toward rapacity.

There were too many civil wars and too much rapacity.