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Quotes About Predatory

La bestia era hermosa, pensó. Hermosa como lo es una cobra, cuya posible fealdad queda eclipsada por sus movimientos airosos y veloces, por una admirable inteligencia predadora.
~ J.R. Ward
War is very cruel, a predatory jungle, and is never the true path of life.
~ Feng Nong
We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
~ Cory Booker
She took a breath, braced herself and turned slightly to look at Jonas. Florentine gold looked back at her. The air left her lungs in a rush of heat. Those eyes held intelligence. A predatory, very focused stare. They devoured her hungrily. Almost possessively. "He paired us. Whitney. He paired us." His voice was a blend of smoke and the wild of the forest. "Even if he hadn't, I would still think you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen.
~ Christine Feehan
Plastic carrier bags floated around the traffic lights at the end of the Strand like predatory jellyfish.
~ Christopher Fowler
Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man's exploitation of the sex-pleasure. The difference between them was a difference of class. If a woman had money she might dictate her own terms: equality, a life contract, and the legitimacy—that is, the property-rights—of her children. If she had no money, she was a proletarian, and sold herself for an existence. And
~ Upton Sinclair
Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man's exploitation of the sex-pleasure. The difference between them was a difference of class.
~ Upton Sinclair
I find that all the fair and noble impulses of humanity, the dreams of poets and the agonies of martyrs, are shackled and bound in the service of organized and predatory Greed!
~ Upton Sinclair
Men had invented means of production capable of making plenty for everyone, but their mental development had not kept up with their techniques, and their moral equipment was centuries behind. They were still predatory animals, trying to enrich themselves at the expense of others, and thus filling their hearts with jealousy and hatred.
~ Upton Sinclair
Night swept in like nothing Leni had ever seen before, like the winged shadow of a creature too big and predatory to comprehend.
~ Kristin Hannah
She looked like a vixen, and that's what she was; she had all the instincts of a female fox. She was the proverbial predatory female. She had what she wanted, now, and she was content. There was just the getting completely away with it that counted.
~ Gil Brewer
It's much easier for non-Indian companies to raise capital because they have profitable markets elsewhere. You might call it capital dumping, predatory pricing, or anti-WTO, but it's a very unfair playing field for Indian startups.
~ Bhavish Aggarwal
The rights of property are in less jeopardy from the Socialists and the Anarchists than from the predatory man of wealth…
~ Theodore Roosevelt
It [predatory capitalism] is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is antihuman and intolerable in the deepest sense.
~ Noam Chomsky
in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment [...].
~ Noam Chomsky
He did not foresee that in a predatory capitalist economy, state intervention would be an absolute necessity to preserve human existence and to prevent the destruction of the physical environment—I speak optimistically.
~ Noam Chomsky
Golathan gets a mean look. Vulpine. Vicious. Like he's about to tear a chicken into wet gobbets and red feathers.
~ Chuck Wendig
We serve nature's purpose by culling the herd, and our own by sharpening our skills. We are the predatory swarm!
~ James Luceno
We are the predatory swarm!
~ James Luceno
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
~ Orrin Hatch
If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nothing moved in that purgatorial waste save carnivorous birds. By
~ Cormac McCarthy
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
~ Havelock Ellis
When it's just sex, you're allowed to be predatory, to make the first move, to entice them into bed, because it's not necessary to make them fall in love with you.
~ Jane Green