Sentences with phrase «for human greed»

To my mind both situations are the spawning grounds for the human greed response; it is just a matter of degree as to what lengths one will go to in order to «survive».

Technology can not correct for human greed, hubris, and profit - driven development, they say.

We entered into the sadistic dog fighting industry — where dogs are pitted against one another for human greed and entertainment.

Not exact matches

Unlike fire, the written word, gunpowder, the wheel, modern monetary systems, political parties, nuclear energy, television, the internet, Facebook, and Twitter, blockchain will be unique among all the other things human beings have invented and will be impervious to corruption, greed, and the lust for power.

Fired by greed and fed by naïveté, these stratagems gone awry offer essential reading for investors as well as students of history, psychology, and human nature.»

«Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.»

«Fear and greed, most notable among counterproductive emotions where money is the object of human desire, can and often do compromise the capacity for rational and orderly thought» Frank Martin

Pope Francis is simply pointing out what everyone knows: those in power with their greed for money and profits, trample on people, human families and human dignity.

HGI may provide us with the power of knowledge and the opportunity for attaining a new and unprecedented level of human health, but it may also provide us with opportunities to exercise our greed and shortsightedness so as to open up new depths of human injustice and misery.

«Can human nature which has been so long conditioned by the stimuli of capitalism,» asked the CENTURY, «discipline itself while still subject to the same stimuli, to the point of curtailing its greed for profits when profits are to be had?»

But human greed, pride, selfishness, self - centeredness, and alienation make it necessary for Christian theology to combine faith and reason in the quest for transformation and reconciliation.

News reports of the last several months freshly impress upon the mind the bright prospects for the human future now that science, greed, and justice have joined forces against the wickedness of the cigarette industry.

If lust for material acquisition can be tempered with love for one's fellow human beings and accountability to God, it becomes possible to deal with the problem of greed effectively.33

So, God gave his children, the Humans, one species of millions, the ability to rise above all reason to destroy the planet they live on while simultaneously destroying themselves with all of the diseases they generate through their greed, gluttony and careless (or carefree) disregard for the environment.

It does not cheer the simple competitive individualism that may be born of greed or may be born of altruism — that offers so much short - term opportunity for managerial zealots and contains so much long - term threat of human debris and loss of community.

Today however many knowledgeable people are saying that many of the high - tech developments have produced technological systems in which the mechanical - materialist view of reality, human greed and ecological destruction are built in; and that therefore a new paradigm of development with technologies integrated with a more holistic understanding of human personhood and peoplehood and recognizing the organic natural and spiritual dimensions of human community are called for.

(ENTIRE BOOK) Only the rebirth of compassion — for ourselves, for each other, for the planet — has the power to enrich and heal our ecologically fragile world reeling from human greed and exploitation.

The conditions that make human trafficking possible and profitable arise not just in the poor countries that supply slaves but wherever the demand for unprotected labor is outmatched only by the wealth and greed of those who pay for it.

It will not end violence, or greed, or lead to greater compassion for our fellow humans... (e.g. Ayn Rand, Stalin, Pol Pot).

In surveying both the damage and the technological marvels wrought by humans, Ackerman, best known for her book A Natural History of the Senses, concludes that human ingenuity and conscientiousness can win out over greed and exploitation in the Humanhuman ingenuity and conscientiousness can win out over greed and exploitation in the HumanHuman Age.

The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.

Pride, envy, greed, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth: It might sound like just one more episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, but this enduring formulation of the worst of human failures has inspired great art for thousands of years.

The book demonstrated the human capacity for self - deception, greed and lust for beauty.

While the Rat Council debates their moral responsibilities, other human characteristics, like greed and power - lust gnaw at their attempts for a utopian community.

By plumbing the depths of human failings in a literal - minded fashion, one after the other (obsession, then greed, and finally guilt), Anderson ignores the possibility that genre is sharpest when wielded as metaphor for the same.

The two films adapted from his books that I have seen — No Country for Old Men and The Road — both managed to show human greed and suffering in ways both disturbing and engaging.

His ideas were marked by a mechanistic materialist foundation, a characterization of human nature based on greed and fear of death, and support for an absolute monarchical form of government.

In this plucky contemporary rendition of an ancient Buddhist folktale, Kapi the monkey king knows that human greed for the mangoes will destroy their home, and risks his life to save his people.

«Draper's savory satire of such an unlikely source of obsession and greed demonstrates a splendid affinity for Mother Nature and a sardonic appraisal of human nature.»

Which de facto puts a floor under a lot of e-book prices (mine for a start), and will in future put it under others, because that's how human greed and commerce work.

But we're all too human — and now we're addicted to this 24/7 diet of escalated corporate & market drama, so it's become easier than ever for the media to stoke fear (and greed) in our hearts.

Over the years, we've introduced such lifesaving practices as mobile adoption, puppy mill rescue, national low - cost spay / neuter referral, humane relocation, and most recently, the Mutt - i - grees ® Curriculum, a humane education program based on social - emotional learning that's strengthening the human - animal bond for more than 3,000,000 students across North America.

Does this «hero» get a gun and go after the human hunters that are responsible for the extinction of many species because of human greed and ignorance that destroys habitat??

... and then quotes Jared Diamond, with a wonderful quote, I think [we humans] did go wrong, not «if» we went wrong, but we did go wrong, in our trajectory up the evolutionary «volcano» of life, and where we went wrong, I think, well, it was not our fault exactly, but the way we evolved, the DNA we carried, the way our brains grew and the way we are «wired» as beasts (animals)-- we often forget we are mere beasts, part of the animal kingdom here — the way we developed meant that our IQ and our visionary acumen and our creative skills led to our developing a seemingly — I say «seemingly» — unstoppable greed for more and more and more and more.

Are the taxpayers of the American family, acting alone, to become responsible for the problems now presented to the human community by the greed of a small group of rich and powerful people worldwide?

It faces tremendous poverty, a changing climate, gender inequality, fluctuating markets, societies that condone child labour, and human greed that always wants the cheapest deal and doesn't want to pay a fair price for it.

Until we humans begin to understand the promotion of greed, and begin to appropriately reward innovation for the benefit of all mankind, we will have no purchase on this issue.

They care nought for the rural neighbours lives turned upside down by wind turbines, victims of their Big Wind mates» Human Rights abuse in the name of profit and greed.

THe only aspect of human nature the left can appeal to is self righteousness; and the self righteous can only go against his innate nature of greed for so long, hence the liberal democratic experiment, being against human nature, will not last much longer and is failing even now.

BBC's «Horizon: Science Under Attack» could be viewed as a natural history programme in which clever humans are closely observed wilfully undermining their own intellects in the pursuit of greed (in this instance, the greed for power).

This book is the definitive dialogue on the subject of paranoid hysterical paranoid alarmists and their denial of evidence for human - caused climate change — the money behind that denial, the political ideologies involved, and of course the unbridled greed that drives denial and denialism.

Also they must respect human rights and the rights of nature, protect the planetary systems on which continued human existence depends, put control over energy, food and water in the hand of accountable local stewards, fairly address overconsumption to meet basic needs for all, not just the greed of a wealthy few.

Just as capitalism is successful by exploiting human greed, the biosphere concept that can go anywhere exploits our traits for exploration.

ORE needs to clean up its own act and stop appealing to the worst aspect of human nature (greed) when it advertises for new recruits in order to keep the dues flowing into its associations» communal war chests.

It's the nature of human greed that, in any asset market that offers the potential for great income and wealth gains, some investors will look for short - term profit.